Alejo Carpentier Quotes

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Alejo Carpentier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: cuban
  • Birth: December 26, 1904 - April 24, 1980

Topics

SuccessMusicDailyFaithStruggle

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

Jessica Hecht

FamilyTimePeopleMeCalmThink

Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.

Max Carver

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I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

Angela Kinsey

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I probably wouldn't have made it this far if I were a refugee.

Angelina Jolie

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China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

Amy Chua

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Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

Sissy Spacek

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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Roger Ebert

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Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Mary McCarthy

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People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

Dennis Moore

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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley

LifeManBookNew LifeYouNew

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

Phil Collins

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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Peter Shaffer

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