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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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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I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.
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It's funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. It's no coincidence these guys get in and get out.
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I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.
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I've always loved horses. When I was younger, I competed in horse shows and did quite well.
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There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
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You want to keep doing better every day.
