Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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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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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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I find the business world hard.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.
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It's fun for 3-year-olds. But older kids will also enjoy dogs playing ball, driving a car, working with different tools. Stuff humans do.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
