Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.

Jim Crace

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Wrinkles happen to human beings.

Jennifer Aniston

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My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she just wanted me to go to sleep. I ended up falling in love with dancing, singing, acting, the whole entertainment world. Then, my mum ended up taking on an extra job so she could fund me to take singing lessons or go to drama classes.

Mel B

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Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

Robert J. Sawyer

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I realise having work done makes you look older - and everyone's starting to look the same, which is a problem. I've admitted that I had a cyst removed from my lip and had it filled - I had to; the lip was half gone. And I've tried Botox, but I don't do it any more. I'd tell anyone who's going to have it done not to do it.

Sophie Monk

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I was hit for the first time before I was married.

Robin Givens

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It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know.

Martin Rees

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I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

Minnie Driver

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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Ludwig von Mises

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I'm a lousy journalist.

Judith Rossner

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The mechanisms inside me tick like a criminal. My mind works like theirs, and criminals can smell it when they're around me - but I choose not to use it in a bad way. I just choose to do good things.

Apollo Robbins

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I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp.

Shane Smith

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