Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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If the home is good, all will be good.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?
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Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.
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You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
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Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.
