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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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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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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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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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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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.
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I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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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.
