Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
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I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.
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People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.
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I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.
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The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
