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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money."
"Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter."
"Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me."
"I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money."
"Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon."
"I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times."
"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news."
"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."
"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."
"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."
"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."
"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."
"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live."
"All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects."
"I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love."
"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 never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."
Mind,
"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
"They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors."
"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."
"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
"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."
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