Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
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I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.
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I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.
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Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.
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I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.
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Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.
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...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
