Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
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Work is what saves you.
