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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
"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."
"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
"Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?"
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."
"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."
"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."
"No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids."
"Globalization is a fact of economic life."
"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."
"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."
"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
"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 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."
"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."
"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."
"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."
"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."
"I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art."
"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."
"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."
"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."
"First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that."
"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."
"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."
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