Carlos Fuentes Quotes

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

Carlos Fuentes

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• Novel
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• To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • End
  • Him

• Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • You
  • Speak

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Day

• Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Opportunity
  • Procrastination
  • Assassin

• After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Years
  • New York
  • I Love

• Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Real
  • Man
  • Suffering

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Treat

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • City
  • Chicago

• In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Reality
  • Honesty
  • Page

• I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Against

• No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Book
  • Enjoy
  • Comedians

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Road
  • Open
  • Cycling

• I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

  

  T-Pain
  • Song
  • Weird
  • Matter

• Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Feet

• What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• I would like to be more active outside of Israel.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Like
  • More
  • Israel

• There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Movie
  • Powerful
  • Decision

• I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Woman
  • Write
  • Novel