Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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I have no guitar technique.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Has venido a este mundo que no entiende nada sin palabras, casi sin palabras.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
