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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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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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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With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
