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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: mexican
Birth: November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012

Topics

Good Experience Book Think Bad Knew

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Believe Financial Retirement Physical

'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.

Success Involved Been Most Cabaret

My training really was at the 'New York Times,' you know. When I got there, I was literally supposed to stay there for five weeks, and I got lucky like nobody, you know, like nobody's business.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Business Training New York You Know

I think the biggest adjustment I've made before coming here was going from High A to Double A. I was going in facing pitchers who had more experience and knew how to throw all their stuff for strikes and in hitter's counts, things like that.

Andrew Benintendi

Experience Think More High Double

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

Wake Up You Wrong Bed Always Side

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

Today People Gentleman Person Go

I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morning I went into labor. It helped me stay comfortable.

Morning Me Week Labor Three Stay

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Sidney Blumenthal

Creative Government Try Office Used

Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.

Me Relax Help Fall Drink Before

When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. Then you start to realise, 'Oh, I'm bending a lot,' and they're just standing there existing, and I'm bending around them. But you can't blame them: they don't realise it; that's just how they already existed. It's hard.

Work Love Job Blame Start Someone

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

Business You House Relationships

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

Deborah Moggach

Life Children Welcome Writing Go Up

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