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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
"I don't have the will for singing but I must do it."
"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."
"We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie."
"Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility."
"Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself."
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
"Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval."
"When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again."
"Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enchantment was lifting, and all I had was painful desire and an indescribable restlessness."
"Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value."
"After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family."
"Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia."
"Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry."
"The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails."
"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."
"I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war."
"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
"We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform."
"I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations."
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."
"I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me."
"The first condition for making music is not to make a noise."
"As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters."
"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."
"I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer."
"An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying : "Tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and the feeble-minded as intellectual. Once again, it's all the work of nature. Far from being the sylph to whom poets sing, nature is a cruel, voracious mother who needs to feed on the creatures she gives birth to in order to stay alive."
"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are."
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