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Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: cuban
Birth: April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005

Topics

Live I Am Think Language Lose Going

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

Children Time Quality Enough Been

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Energy Too Much Always Room Things

I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He's always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills.

Dog Myself Me Push Week Three

I just try to do something to sweat at least an hour a day.

Sterling K. Brown

Day Sweat Try Something Just Hour

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Politics War People Betrayal Living

I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my Internet search history.'

Love God History Me Search Help

When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.

Character Reading Someone You Table

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

Funny Purpose Me Busy Thinking Said

There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.

Time Friends Fall True Hard Out

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

Anthony LaPaglia

Sad Someone Back Coach Hire Get

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

Friend I Am World Impossible You Am

I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there's a part of it that I feel this connection to.

Time New York Feel Crown Brooklyn

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