Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
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Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
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Most of my close friends, growing up, were women - and even after I got married, I still maintained a lot of those friendships. But as they get married, and as I get older, I'm making a lot of the transition to the husbands.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
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Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.
