Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: peruvian
  • Birth: March 28, 1936

Topics

GoodCreativityHelpYouYoungKind

My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.

Jerry Della Femina

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Do women golfers say they could go out and beat Tiger Woods?

John McEnroe

WomenWoodsTigerGoSayOut

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

Jeffrey Kluger

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The only pressure I feel is the pressure I put on myself to win.

Andy Murray

MyselfWinPressureFeelOnlyPut

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

Spike Jonze

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I don't have a musical bone in my body.

Trudie Styler

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The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.

Tommy Chong

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Dominating the midfield is the most important thing in modern football. To succeed, you have to be good at everything.

Toni Kroos

GoodFootballSucceedYouImportant

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

Roh Moo-hyun

SituationPresidencyCannotConduct

A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

Louis MacNeice

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The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

Joseph Wambaugh

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I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.

Chris Kattan

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