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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: colombian
Birth: March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014

Topics

Reality Literature You Wood Nothing

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?

John Bates Clark

Practice Law Result Worth Question

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Time Men Yourself You Others Hard

Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Family Education Home School Help

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

Quality Think End Table Kind Bring

I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts, to be right for the part, rather than just, 'Oh, he can play the fiddle.'

Great Play Want Seriously Right He

Football was much, much more than I hoped it would be. If I dreamed as a kid, I could never have foreseen such amazing things.

Football Amazing More Never Kid

My new song 'Shrug' I created with two guys. The idea was a message about ignoring haters. People one-up you, stay true to yourself.

Christina Grimmie

Yourself People Song Haters You New

No one can escape life's pain. That's life.

Life Pain Escape

There will be time enough some day to work less.

Work Time Day Enough Will Some

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

Leadership Important Now Jail Dead

There were 10 to 12 years where I averaged two to three hours of sleep a night. There were times when I didn't go to sleep for two days, but I'd usually crash one Sunday a month for 16 to 18 straight hours, and then I'd be rejuvenated.

Sleep Night Sunday Go Three Month

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

Home Pressure Winner Media You Want

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