Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Ginger: Oh, jeez. Well, uh... maybe you should talk to someone.Cynthia: I thought I was.
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.
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Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.
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"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."
