Alejandro Zambra Quotes
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
