Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes
The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
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I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
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Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.
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I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.
