Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes.
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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
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This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously "creative".
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I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.
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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
