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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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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So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.
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When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.
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Senator Vitter and I had a track record of working together on some key issues, restoring funding for our waterways and ports; he assisted me on the Senate side with the veterans' clinics. We have a working relationship where we look out for the interests of Louisiana.
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It's now time to organize and move forward. It's time for deep thinking, reformation of the Democratic Party.
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We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.
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I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.
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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.
