Carlos Fuentes Quotes

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Carlos Fuentes

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• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Social
  • Corruption
  • Activism

• 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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• 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.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
  • Love
  • American

• 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.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Service
  • Literature
  • Adventure

• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Animal
  • Bear

• 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.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Witty

• 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.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Amazing
  • Fantastic
  • Fabulous

• I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Worker
  • Compulsive
  • Relaxer

• It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Old
  • Award
  • Honoured

• I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Women
  • Performances
  • Athletes

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Memories
  • Clothes
  • Sentimentalist

• 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.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Home
  • Married

• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Procrastinator

• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Change
  • Paradox

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

  

  James Callis
  • Study
  • English
  • Drama

• The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Real

• Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Together
  • Years
  • Sum

• I am happy with the response I am receiving for 'Kaabil.' Audiences' love is what we work for, after all.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Response

• I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Animal
  • Literature