Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
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My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.
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I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.
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There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.
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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
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Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.
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If your entire relationship with money is devoid of fun, money becomes something you fear and loathe rather than something to celebrate and enjoy.
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What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.
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- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.
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The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
