Enrique Vila-Matas Quotes
One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Act because you love to act.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I'm a very ambitious person. I've been like this from a very young age. As early as 12 years old, I used to have panic attacks because I needed to know my life plan.
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With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That's what appeals to me about it. I want to have as much fun as possible.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
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I know what women expect, and give it to them without disagreeable argument; they'll get it anyway.
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The writer does not get from his work as he writes and reads it the same aesthetic shock that the reader does; and since the writer is so accustomed to reading other stories, and having them produce a decided effect upon him, he is disquieted at not being equally affected by his own.
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If America is about anything, she is about freedom. We have seen in the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security and at our airports and in the color-coded alerts the beginning of the erosion of that freedom.
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I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But I certainly will support the outcome of this election.
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The most worrisome development in the evolution of Al Qaeda’s influence since 9/11 is the growth of pockets of Islamist radicalism in Western populations.
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No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
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I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
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One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else.
