Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or that sort of person. And you can be sure that the images are highly complimentary! But since they are purely imaginary, they are highly sensitive to assault by reality.
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I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
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Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.
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You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.
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It’s in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it’s a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
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I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
