Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
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When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
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Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
