Daniel Alarcon Quotes
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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I wasn't the most technical player. But I was fast, and if I push the ball past a player, I can get there. Everyone always made fun of me in a good way for that.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I feel so blessed to do what I do, but there's nothing in the world better than watching your child succeed.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
