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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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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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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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
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I can see how people work out to feel better.
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
