Carlos Fuentes Quotes

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

Carlos Fuentes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

John Barrasso

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As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Meredith Monk

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If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Portman

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I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

Michael Palin

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One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments - not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.

Molly Antopol

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As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

Jonathan Sacks

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I worked a full-time job at a place call Caraustar. We recycle paper, then through recycled paper, we take it and we make V board out of it. If you buy a TV, a new couch, you see these little V boards that make like a V.

Demetrious Johnson

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Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.

Christine Lagarde

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What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.

Christian de Duve

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All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

Constance Wu

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The picture was of me, and I sent it.

Anthony Weiner

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My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

Wolf Blitzer

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