"The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper."

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Source : "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#Paper Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Reason Quotes

“If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.
“Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.”
“We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.”
“In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.”
“The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.”
“It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.”
“For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.”
“I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.”

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