Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.
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I know many actresses who started big but were sent packing, as they couldn't sustain the momentum. I am in this for the long haul.
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It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?
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'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
