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

Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist

Detail, May, Mind

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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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"Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture."

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"The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world."

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"Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own."

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"In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them."

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"My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults."

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"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

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"A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable."

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"With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out."

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"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

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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."

Care

"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."

Society

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

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"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens."

Food

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

Society

"Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter."

Memory

"One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language."

Society

"Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me."

People

"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."

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

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