Alejandro Zambra Quotes
As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
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Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
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As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.
