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Quotes by Argentinian Authors
"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go ."
"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer."
"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."
"I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment."
"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"
"Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich."
"The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory."
"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."
"In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it."
"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
"I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind."
"I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows."
"If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it."
"Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence."
"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."
"I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with."
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
"I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time."
"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
"God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't."
"The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing."
"I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials."
"I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket."
"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting."
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."
"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."
"Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life."
"My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets."
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
"I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have."
"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."
"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."
"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
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