Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes
Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I love Costco.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
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For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.
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Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
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Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
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Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.
