Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.
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In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.
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So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.
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Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.
