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Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: spanish
Birth: September 25, 1964

Topics

Good Literature Must Gothic Shirley

I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.

Problems Industry Artists Interested

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

Food Face Process Name Farmer Know

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Women Men Wise Strong Name You

I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.

Loved You Alaska Got Paid Working

Who knows what the heck the future will bring.

Johnny Van Zant

Future Will Bring Who Knows Heck

We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

Douglas Rushkoff

Time Best World Driving Attention

A little dark chocolate in small amounts often helps lift me out of those blue moments. When I walk into my favorite store on Union Street in San Francisco that sells high-quality chocolates from around the world, I feel like, well, a kid in a candy store.

Walk Blue Me World Small Chocolate

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Bruce Beresford

Budget Done Australia Anything Film

I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.

Bridgit Mendler

Myself Challenge Play Want Different

Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

Life Time Best People Mom Moments

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

Life Love Childhood Death Relax

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

Peter McWilliams

Life Struggle Wiggle

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