Mario Benedetti Quotes

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

Mario Benedetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: uruguayan
  • Birth: September 14, 1920 - May 17, 2009

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My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

Joel Edgerton

JourneyGreatInterestingCareer

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

Andrew Shue

GoodPeopleBetterDreamBiggerWho

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Robert M. Pirsig

LifeMindDyingWastedBecause

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

Matthew Quick

FamilyI AmBlackSheepArtistHere

The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.

Rob Woodall

AccountabilityMoreStateThanMuch

In my relations with my husband, there was never any deceit... he never said he was going out on business; he would say he was going to a show, and I would say, 'Fine.'

Rose Kennedy

BusinessHusbandSaidSayNeverOut

The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.

Michelle Dean

WomenForwardStoryAmericanDoing

Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when you call them up on the phone, they'll say, 'This is off the record,' or, 'This is on background,' or they don't even wait for you to say anything.

Lowell Bergman

PeopleWaitYouPhoneWashingtonUp

Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.

Lois Lowry

MotherTodayChildrenBestChild

When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.

Juan Antonio Bayona

ToughYouSituationThingsShow

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.

Jonathan Miller

PeopleMeDoctorBehaviorDoingYou

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

Cindy Morgan

JobStrategyWrongDoneWayRight

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