Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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• One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Best

• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Want
  • Food
  • Hungry

• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Up
  • Situation
  • Dreaming

• Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Business
  • Small
  • Positive

• If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan... and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Career
  • Start
  • Queen

• Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Good
  • War

• There's backlash about everything I do.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Everything
  • About
  • Backlash

• The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • Model
  • New

• At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Inspiration

• Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

  

  A. A. Milne

• See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Country

• History is at once freedom and necessity.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • History
  • Freedom

• I enjoy fighting, but my family says, 'Stop, no.'

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Family
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• Sometimes just getting out of the pocket and getting rid of the ball can be the biggest play of the game. As I've said many times, a quarterback's biggest play is when it's not there. Everyone is going to hit it when it's there. When it's not there, what do you do with it?

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Quaterback

• I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Live
  • You
  • Never

• I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Feeling
  • Story
  • Start

• School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.

  

  Curt Sachs
  • Companion
  • Dance
  • Existence

• A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa