Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.
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You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste - that can be fixed - but that they don't know they have it!
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
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Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.