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Quotes by Cuban Authors
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
"One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve."
"I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it."
"Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance."
"It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records."
"A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set."
"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
"If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances."
"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."
"Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying."
"To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly."
"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys."
"I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century."
"In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players."
"Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love."
"There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I didn't know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it."
"There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships."
"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."
"I like a lot of the stuff that they did without me, the time I wasn't around."
"I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too."
"We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever."
"I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous."
"My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread."
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