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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake."
"Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much."
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."
"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."
"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."
"True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."
"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."
"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."
"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."
"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."
"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them."
"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile."
"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."
"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."
"I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians."
"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers."
"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."
"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays."
"So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years."
"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."
"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."
"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."
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