Alvaro Enrigue Quotes
In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
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That's our goal every year, to win the World Series, like it is at most places. In L.A., it really is.
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
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They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.
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For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.
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Writing plays fast and loose with the past.
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In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
