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Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Reason Through Intellect Channels

Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.

Stress Mind Me Crazy Vanity Know

There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

Good Team Energy Pressure You Want

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Change Nobody Get Everybody Wants

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Style Think Doing You Difficult Own

When I was a wee little kid, I used to watch 'Dark Shadows' all the time, so I was a Barnabas Collins fan.

Time Dark Shadows Kid Little Watch

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

Life Ten Years Said Want More Years

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

Women Woman I Am Me Saying Feeling

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

Work You Sometimes Want Accept Just

Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.

Waiting Breakfast Lunch Colleagues

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

Philosophy Dress-Up Playing Whole

I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

Writing Boring Out Plot Third Tried

I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.

Doing Chicago Chicken Fried Chicken

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