Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.
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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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What we're really after is trying to understand what's in the mind of God.
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It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.
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We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
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If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
