Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
Abu Bakr -
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore -
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
Hank Johnson -
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover -
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
Natalia Makarova -
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
Wade Boggs
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
Edmund Phelps -
I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
Kate Clinton -
One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
Natalie Morales -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
G. Willow Wilson -
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Frances Wright
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
Sam Shepard -
Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
L'Wren Scott -
You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
Edie Campbell -
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
Baba Kalyani -
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T
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Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.
Marco Brambilla -
Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
Marc Platt -
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
Bernie Worrell -
One touch of nature makes all the world kin.
John Muir -
The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez