Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes
One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.
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People ask me whether I'd like another child, and it is difficult to answer, as I am so happy with the two I have.
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Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.
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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
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It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.
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One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.
