Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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Practices were tough.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
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If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.
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We like to crystallize something in the audience's brain that makes them say, 'Hey I really want to watch that. I'm really interested in it.'
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
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There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.
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Every day, I pinch myself. It has been an incredible journey.
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I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
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I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.
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I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.
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We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.
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Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.
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As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.
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It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
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A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.
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I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.
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When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
