Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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Once you start a war, you have to win.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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Acting is very immediate.
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MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
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I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of the results of that, in 2014 there's going to be a referendum in Scotland as to whether Scotland is going to be independent. A great deal of that was brought to the nation as a result of 'Braveheart.'
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Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat!
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Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.
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My only fear is the unknown.
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The most terrible things end, at last.
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I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.
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You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
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Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.
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Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck.
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I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
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For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.
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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
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Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.
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I am a fight fan. I think boxing had its problems and kind of fell away for a while, but it's coming back strong .
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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I have no literary fears.
