Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

Jesse Schell

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Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it.

Jens Lekman

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I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

John T. Chambers

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Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Amanda Hearst

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Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Stokely Carmichael

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I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.

Tony Curran

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At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

Monica Lewinsky

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When I play, I don't cheat. I played for 490,000 in Berlin, and I'll play just as hard for 100.

Dick Dale

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Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

Christopher Nolan

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If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

Brandon Lee

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I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.

Brea Grant

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I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

Wole Soyinka

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