Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I've never been a partier.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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I love it, I love it, and who shall dareTo chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
