Carlos Fuentes Quotes
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.
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It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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TRP ratings affect me. There are times when the ratings are so low that we feel that we could have done something more. But that is about it. I don't stress over it too much.
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The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if it were a find chardonnay. What on Earth does it matter if you stop and repeat a phrase, roll it around on your tongue, dart a few lines ahead and then suddenly come back and reread it? If the phrase is good enough, you are supposed to stop and rejoice in it.
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As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.
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It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.
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I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
