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Quotes by Mexican Authors

"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."

"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."

"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."

"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."


"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."

"We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux."

"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."

"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 that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old."


"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."

"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."

"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."

"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."

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

"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."

"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."


"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."

"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."

"In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform."

"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."

"No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids."

"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."

"Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal."

"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."

"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."

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

"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there."

"I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art."


"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."

"With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time."

"I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame."

"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."

"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."
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