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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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
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I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.
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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.
