Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.
