"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile."

Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist

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"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."

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"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."

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"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."

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"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."

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