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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I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.
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All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.
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I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.
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There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
