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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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
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I can tell you every element of every single look from each collection - one to 30 - without looking at a picture: my label is all done by me.
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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
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My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.
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And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
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If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
