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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."
"Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long."
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
"Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."
"Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent."
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
"So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story."
"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."
"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society."
"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income."
"If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend."
"I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting."
"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
"Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history."
"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."
"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."
"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
"Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more."
"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."
"My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!"
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
"When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset."
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