Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SuccessShadowWindUps And Downs

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

Joan Fontaine

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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Andrew Denton

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I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

John Knoll

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The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that.

Robert Lepage

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The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

Stephen Gardiner

LifeCharacterInspirationInterior

I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

Mitski

Growing UpBrainControlThinkKid

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Joseph Epstein

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Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

Drew Barrymore

BeautifulPeopleBetterHandsSex

Competition is always there.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

CompetitionAlways

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

Paul Tudor Jones

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I worked on anti-submarine warfare for surface ships.

Peggy Johnson

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