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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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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To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
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I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.
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Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.
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From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.
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One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else.
