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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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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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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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.
