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 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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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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What a fucking great band we were.
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The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.
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I don't know anyone who hasn't overcooked at least one turkey, myself included. It's easy to do.
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I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.
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You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.
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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.
