Mario Benedetti Quotes
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
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Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer wrt lack of successful "conscious" music... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
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The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
