Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment but a way to act.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.
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I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
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We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment but a way to act.
