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My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
Mario Testino
You
Words
Opportunities
Doors
Think
Possibilities
Favourite
Open
Curiosity
Curious
The Doors
Then
Create
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Life
Art
You
Yourself
Revenge
Result
Achieve
Problems
Totalitarianism
Hell
Society
Way
Relief
Write
Writer
Attempt
Catastrophe
Bound
Saints
Persecution
Any
Repression
Want
Achieves
Which
Social
Utopia
My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Politics
People
Political
Political Power
Mind
Values
Three
Power
Monsters
Way
Destroy
About
Principles
Years
Very
Human
Transform
Which
Little
Human Mind
Appetite
When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.
Mario Testino
Work
You
People
Will
Nice
Take
Like
Want
Mean
Granted
Nice People
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Democracy
Dictatorship
Maintain
Go
Stake
Elections
Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Today
Failure
History
Wealth
Better
Dictatorship
Revolution
Radical
Living
Everybody
Latin
Latin American
Total
More
Small
More Or Less
Brutal
Exception
Longest
Know
Parties
Cuban
American
American History
Produce
Standard
Less
Conscious
I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Life
Love
My Life
Pretense
Concentrated
Principally
Scientific
Precision
Love Stories
Stories
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Freedom
Invention
Think
Characters
General
Limited
Historical
Use
We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.
Alberto Fujimori
Three
First
Fighting
Given
Terrorists
Were
Years
Governments
While
Former
Succeeding
Shown
Last
And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.
Alberto Fujimori
People
Some People
Three
Some
Factories
Counter
Part
Also
False
Campaign
Banks
Japanese
Million
Two
Panama
I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.
Alberto Fujimori
Law
Election
Will
Community
Framework
Results
Understand
Expect
Done
After
Process
Which
International
International Community
Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.
Alberto Fujimori
Terrorism
World
Before
Fighting
Alive
Case
Feasible
Terrorist
Isolated
Which
Against
Mean
Showing
Groups
Now
Two
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
Alberto Fujimori
Poverty
Imply
Necessarily
Violence
The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.
Alberto Fujimori
Terrorism
Liberation
Those
Unacceptable
Commit
Who
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
Alberto Fujimori
Democracy
Progressing
Our
Fact
Recovering
Recovery
Doing
In Fact
Sustaining
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
Daniel Alarcon
Life
People
Language
Country
Half
Everything
Abandon
Willing
Would
Emigrate
Given
More
Uncertainty
Know
Another
Foreign
Foreign Land
Than
Where
Land
Peru
Population
Chance
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
Daniel Alarcon
Writing
Think
Latin
Latin America
Latin American
About
Write
Writer
America
American
Happens
English
Who
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
Daniel Alarcon
Think
Way
Papers
Worst
Would
Find
Could
Write
Column
Columns
Stuff
Like
Most
Been
Blogs
Die
Often
Ephemeral
Asked
Really
Peru
Hard
Thing
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
Daniel Alarcon
Discipline
Sit
Down
Think
About
Structure
More
Write
Does
How
Impose
Intellectual
Linguistic
Sentences
Really
Certain
Hard
Mapping
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
Daniel Alarcon
Art
People
Live
True
Idea
Making
Opposed
Artist
Being
Who
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
Daniel Alarcon
Love
You
Fall
Take
Never
Like
Know
Because
Affair
Love Affair
Going
Just
Where
Novel
Keep
Keep Going
I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
Daniel Alarcon
You
Three
Finished
Interview
Later
Days
Like
Piece
Because
Then
Radio
At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
Daniel Alarcon
Say
Something
Writers
Most
Who
Basic
Level
Appreciate
When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
Daniel Alarcon
Music
Song
Language
Lyrics
Background
Distracting
Find
Clash
Able
Voices
Write
Head
Between
Days
Instrumental
Understand
Very
Just
Younger
Even
Playing
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
Daniel Alarcon
Work
Music
Band
Says
About
Take
Name
Named
Underdogs
Make
Los
Lot
Any
Famous
After
Literature
Who
Sucker
Novel
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
Daniel Alarcon
Writing
School
Language
Seriously
High
High School
Had
Sophisticated
Particularly
Domestic
Literary
Spanish
English
Disposal
Started
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