Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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When I look someone in the eye, they are immediately smitten with me.
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I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.
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'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I got out to Los Angeles. I'd just finished school, and I was so naive.
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I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.
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I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.
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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
