Alvaro Enrigue Quotes
In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
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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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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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Her hair is Harlow gold Her lips a sweet surpriseHer hands are never cold She's got Bette Davis eyes
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Every man thinks god is on his side.
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I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.
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In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.
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The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
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The Princess Mahiya, and she is mine.
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In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
