Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • You
  • Know
  • How

• Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Create
  • Segregation

• For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Future
  • Political

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Famous
  • More
  • Fame

• Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Waiting
  • Green
  • Street

• If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Filmmaker

• If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Indians

• They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • Friends
  • Hate

• In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture - then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Picture

• Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit … Life, liberty, and thought - three persons in one substance, eternal, never-ending, and unceasing.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Life

• The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Good
  • Confidence

• Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Relationship
  • Courage

• Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Approach

• To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Work
  • Determination
  • Piece

• I want to inspire, and be inspired.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Inspire

• I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez