Carlos Zambrano Quotes
When you drive a car, when you're the driver, you know what to do. When you go 100 mph in Venezuela, you know what to do. The people in the passenger seat can be scared, but the guy driving the car is not scared. It's the same way on the mound.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.
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A people must have dignity and identity.
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I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.
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I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.
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When you drive a car, when you're the driver, you know what to do. When you go 100 mph in Venezuela, you know what to do. The people in the passenger seat can be scared, but the guy driving the car is not scared. It's the same way on the mound.
