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I read the Bible every day, study it, and share with my wife the blessings of faith.
Edinson Cavani
Faith
Day
Bible
Every Day
Wife
Every
Share
Study
Blessings
Read
Football puts everything at your fingertips. And I was raised in a way that focused everything on looking after your family. Faith really helped me realise that the temptations that you have on hand will give you joy, enjoyment, whatever, but only for a short while. And after that, it is all gloom.
Edinson Cavani
Faith
Family
Me
You
Joy
Will
Looking
Whatever
Everything
Way
Focused
Temptations
Give
Fingertips
Only
Football
Puts
Gloom
Hand
Short
After
Realise
While
Really
Your
Helped
Enjoyment
Raised
For Brazil or any other national team in the world, to play Uruguay is a commitment and a very tough match.
Edinson Cavani
Commitment
World
Tough
National
Brazil
Other
Match
Very
National Team
Any
Team
Play
What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.
Eduardo Galeano
Bible
Biting
Scene
Most
Popular
Eve
Apple
Adam
Adam And Eve
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.
Eduardo Galeano
Work
Book
Writing
Dark
Dark Side
Think
Side
Book Writing
Sees
Written
Journalism
Tradition
Literature
Agree
Even
Zenith
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.
Eduardo Galeano
Dreams
Best
Better
Wake Up
Nighttime
Pele
Only
Writer
Messi
Became
Wake
Up
Than
Wooden
Doomed
Wanted
Legs
Soccer
Realized
Even
Player
Night
Number
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.
Eduardo Galeano
Love
God
Good
World
Country
Thanks
Damn
Plead
Pretty
Miracle
About
Give
Football
Performs
Go
Hand
Move
Stadiums
Happens
Which
Team
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo Galeano
Walls
Poor
Publishers
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.
Eduardo Galeano
Joy
Think
Others
See
Someone
Purpose
Writer
Perhaps
Us
Help
Who
Helping
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.
Eduardo Galeano
Big
Unknown
Books
Hidden
Small
Reveal
Always
Greatness
Trying
Little
Help
Pettiness
I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
Eduardo Galeano
Absolutely
Am
Quite
Prehistoric
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
Eduardo Galeano
Losing
Others
Some
Winning
Division
Labor
Nations
Specialize
Among
Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.
Eduardo Galeano
Saying
Nature
Rights
Human Rights
Corporations
States
Admit
Also
Protected
Well
Human
Themselves
Then
Should
United
Why
United States
Why Not
Here
Defend
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.
Eduardo Galeano
Me
Words
Speak
Will
Tell
How
Tap
Stories
Which
Them
Shoulder
Choose
Many
Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.
Eduardo Galeano
Game
Business
Eyes
Party
Become
Believe
Though
About
More
Football
Still
Itself
Legs
Soccer
Less
Professional
Even
Play
Watch
A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.
Eduardo Galeano
People
Fault
Think
Proof
Feet
Most
Lot
While
Soccer
Convinced
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
Eduardo Galeano
Writing
Words
Try
Difficult
Those
Run
Marvelous
Adventure
Very
Escape
Capture
Away
I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.
Eduardo Galeano
Education
Art
You
Cafe
Remember
First
Telling
Know
Educated
Formal
Stories
Formal Education
Storytelling
Lessons
Receive
Received
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
Eduardo Galeano
God
Devil
Some
Writers
Clear
Feel
Am
Elected
Who
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
Eduardo Galeano
Fear
Torture
Purpose
Spreading
Getting
Information
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
Eduardo Galeano
Way
Castle
Propose
Impose
Owners
Soccer
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
Fede Alvarez
Good
You
Will
Way
Boring
About
Good Story
Does
Go
Wondering
Going
Just
Where
Happening
Predictable
Story
Keep
Now
Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
Fede Alvarez
Love
Day
Heart
Every Day
Made
Just Do It
Every
Films
Spend
Way
No Love
How
Making
Just
Cannot
Hollywood
Realize
Paycheck
Many
Film
Start
Imagine
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
Fede Alvarez
You
People
Writing
Entertained
Entertaining
Directing
Point
Want
Movie
Storyteller
Whole
Keep
Right
In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
Fede Alvarez
Day
You
Eyes
End Of The Day
Roller Coaster
Those
Thrill
Like
Brain
Off
Clockwork
End
Jump
Roller
Goes
Orange
Just
Want
Your
Coaster
Many
Why
Things
Watching
If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
Fede Alvarez
God
Great
Family
You
Thank God
Evil
Think
Films
Other
Market
Way
Bad
About
Horror
Horror Films
No-One
Demands
Dead
Make
Because
Lot
Thank
Just
Just Because
Sequels
Away
Right
Right Away
Thinks
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