Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.
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I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.
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So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren’t human, but they were people, she told herself; it’s not them, they’re us.
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Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
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I was such a fan of Cyndi Lauper and her whole 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' thing.
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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
