Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

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• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

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• Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

  

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• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

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• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

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• Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

  

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• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

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• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

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• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

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• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

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• Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

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• The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

  

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• Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

  

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• I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.

  

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• There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign? No. Of course not. No. No. I will carry on.

  

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• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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