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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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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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.
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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
