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Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Today Value Lost Everything Fiction

I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

Life Live Peace Joy People My Life

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

Journey Me Self Look Back Acting

I think you can say that life is a system in which proteins and nucleic acids interact in ways that allow the structure to grow and reproduce. It's that growth and reproduction, the ability to make more of yourself, that's important.

Andrew H. Knoll

Life Growth Yourself Think Grow You

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.

Media President More Narrative Poker

I fell in love with Alan Ayckbourn the day I met him and, starting with 'The Norman Conquests,' went on to do eight plays with him. He tells you just what you want to know and has a brilliant way of solving problems.

Love Day Problems You Know Want

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.

Great Commitment Parents People Will

Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.

Become More Right Genocide Expect

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

Power Find More Something Far Than

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

Influence Play Know Understand Own

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

Writing Reading Say Always Tell

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

Rufus Wainwright

Ambition Lady Gaga Ounce

Without your health, everything else means nothing.

Health Nothing Everything Without

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