Jonás Cuarón Quotes
My wife likes me better when I'm writing. It centers me and makes me more calm. When I go a long time without writing, I start getting frustrated.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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There's no regrets for me.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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I did most of my schooling in Miami.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
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I'm not a very typical singer.
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.
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Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.
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My wife likes me better when I'm writing. It centers me and makes me more calm. When I go a long time without writing, I start getting frustrated.
