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Quotes by Filipino Authors
"He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination."
"I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy."
"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."
"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City."
"I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness."
"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."
"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
"In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord."
"Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone."
"Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival."
"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
"Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it."
"My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify."
"If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are."
"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice."
"I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility."
"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it."
"When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers."
"I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware."
"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
"I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty."
"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."
"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back."
"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
"I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood."
"I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical."
"They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system."
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