Enrique Vila-Matas Quotes

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

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• I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Good
  • Women
  • Comedies

• The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Important
  • Women
  • She

• I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Band
  • Like
  • Rock

• As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Attitude

• I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Kind

• If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • World
  • Career
  • Value

• Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Important
  • Family
  • Energy

• My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Together
  • Know
  • Homework

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Mexican
  • Flow
  • Border

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• Like every other 13-year-old in America, she's in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, who I think is an androgynous wimp. You know what he does throughout the whole movie Titanic? He smokes.

  

  John McCain
  • She
  • America
  • Movie

• Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.

  

  Joe Garcia

• Its objectives to suggest new paths for the study of European economic history rather than fit either of these standard formats. It is more than anything an agenda for new research.

  

  Douglass North
  • History
  • Study

• I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

  

  Enrique Vila-Matas
  • Long
  • Journey
  • Search