Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.
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God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
