F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

F. Sionil Jose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: December 3, 1924

Topics

FunnyFunPeopleTryingLookActing

Recently partnered with Express Men as a brand ambassador, so my closet is full of the new fashion trends and styles that keep me fresh for games.

Stephen Curry

MenMeFashionBrandNewGames

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Tommy Mottola

GoodCreativityEndYouArtistKnow

When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive.

Robert Crumb

AngryI AmAmericaYouBackKind

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

Tom Felton

FamilyMyselfMoneyClothesBMWBuy

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

Ruby Dee

HeroGangsterAlwaysAgainstBeen

I think it's good for parents to be supportive, to motivate, and to somewhat nudge their kids because the majority of kids will want to quit something when it gets hard - that's just their nature. Children will normally take the easier road.

Dominique Dawes

NatureGoodChildrenParentsRoad

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

Donna Shalala

WorkReadingSeriousTryDeal

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

Christopher Dodd

GreatPrideCountryLivedTakeFact

When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'

Brian Fallon

WorldAmericanKnowBandSeeOut

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

Boy George

GreatI AmInsecuritySheDenial

I made my personal discovery of Emily Carr while visiting Victoria in 1981 to write a travel article. Immediately, her strong colors attracted me; her spunk fascinated me. Her down-to-earth voice in her writing appealed to me as authentic and original.

Susan Vreeland

TravelMeColorsWritingStrong

From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.

Pete Burns

MotherChildMeFaceFriendsSilent

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