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I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path. Elian Gonzalez
God Religion Path Crew Right Path Would Would-Be Castro Take He Knew Like His Ship Did Any Fidel Castro Profess Right
I'd like to go to Cuba. Elian Gonzalez
Like Cuba Go
Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family. Elian Gonzalez
Family Me Woman Old Old Woman Meet Because Always Am Go Child Famous Wants Wherever Suffered
When you're auditioning for commercials, they're looking for a Latin guy in his 20s, and you'll show up, and it's a bunch of people who look just like you, and it's a little weird. More often than not, they're way better-looking. They're taller. They have way more abs than you do. Frankie J. Alvarez
You People Looking Way Latin Guy More Weird Like Look Taller Auditioning His Up Bunch Than Commercials Often Just Little Show Who
I can't point to my work and say, 'This is my work.' My work lives in me, so when people criticize my work, they're also criticizing me. It's really hard to sort of divorce that sensitivity. Frankie J. Alvarez
Work Me People Say Criticize Criticizing Point Divorce Also Sort Sensitivity Really Hard Lives
You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you. Frankie J. Alvarez
Character You Yourself Sense Though He Put Lot Even
One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card. Frankie J. Alvarez
First Jobs Doing Get Did Children Theater Union Card
My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways. Frankie J. Alvarez
Me World Three Closed Think Changed Minded Dancers Bit Ways Religious Opened Him Lot Up Very Sisters Closed-Minded Arts Being Theater Little Little Bit Dad Growing Growing Up Two
One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much. Georg Stanford Brown
Work Great You Opportunity Black Minority Somewhere Other Out One Of The Things One Thing Constantly Folks See Some About Counterparts Performance Know Because Coming Going Just Being Much Really Your Deep Keep Actor Thing Things Flow
For me, acting was something I fell into. Georg Stanford Brown
Me Something Fell Acting
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Books Calling Avoided Novels
I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself Consider Writer Hispanic
I think all writing is done through memory. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Memory Writing Think Through Done
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Work Me Progress Sense Books No Sense Naming Because Makes Begun Title Many
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself Wise Money Publish Once Write Writer Writes Himself Reader Said Very Author Just Then
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Think Everybody Rush Writers Very Frightened Where Tread
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Magazine Weekly Journalism Feel Wrote Comfortable Edited Itself Did Literary Then Really Profession
I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Book Before Able Read Movie
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You Reading Beginning Though Telling See Like Because End Movie Story Even Images Watching
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Life My Life Important Strips More Journalism Comic Comic Strips Were Than Influences Radio
I don't have any style. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Style Any
I am a writer of fragments. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Fragments Writer Am
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Insist Elsewhere Books States Calling Spain Them Works Describe Novels United United States Publishers
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
First Beginning Define Plot Characters Something End Middle Sustain Interest Sentence Novel Last
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Work Lost Believe Otherwise Must Inspiration Am Order Title
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You Conversation Matter Down Detective Write Soon Becomes Autobiography Fiction Means Novel Street Biography
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