Mario Benedetti Quotes
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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I buy way too many books.
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
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Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.
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The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
