Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.
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I've always been a narcissist.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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My commitment is to truth not consistency.
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I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.
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Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.
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It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
