Alejandro Zambra Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.
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I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.
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Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.
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You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.
