Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.
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I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
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My mom always bails me out of things when I get in trouble.
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I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.
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Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
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Faith and family, NOTHING is more important then education
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When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
