Carlos Ruiz Quotes
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.
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When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.
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Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
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People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.
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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,And the day is dark and dreary.
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President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.
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Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.
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And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.
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In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.
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You want to keep doing better every day.
