Isco (Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez) Quotes
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!
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Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
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Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
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I named my dog 'Messi' because Messi is the best in the world, and so is my dog.
