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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"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."
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"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
9
"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."
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"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."
7
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
6
"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."
6
"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society."
6
"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
5
"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."
5
"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."
5
"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
5
"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."
5
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
Will,
5
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
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"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
5
"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."
4
"Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history."
4
"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"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."
3
"Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long."
3
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
3
"My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!"
3
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
3
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
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