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 was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
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In archetypes, there is the Nurturer and the Warrior. Different kinds of strengths that, ideally, complement each other and are equally respected.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.
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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.
