Daniel Alarcon quote: "For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work."

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that i...
DANIEL ALARCON

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my ...
DANIEL ALARCON

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
DANIEL ALARCON

I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Ma...
DANIEL ALARCON

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can&...
DANIEL ALARCON

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
DANIEL ALARCON

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished pie...
DANIEL ALARCON

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and ...
DANIEL ALARCON

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' wa...
DANIEL ALARCON

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of ...
DANIEL ALARCON

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike,...
DANIEL ALARCON

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to...
DANIEL ALARCON

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer ...
DANIEL ALARCON

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
DANIEL ALARCON

I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings a...
DANIEL ALARCON

As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup sinc...
DANIEL ALARCON

I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it reall...
DANIEL ALARCON

Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's hal...
DANIEL ALARCON

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, ...
DANIEL ALARCON

I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that ...
DANIEL ALARCON

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all o...
RICARDO ALARCON

No one has the right to monopolize any source of energy fundamental for humanity.
RICARDO ALARCON

We all know Mr Bush is a terrorist. But I want to indulge him, up to a certain point, he is not guil...
RICARDO ALARCON

Our view is that the Elian Gonzalez event may help us precisely to improve relations.
RICARDO ALARCON

Our view is that the Elian Gonzalez event may help us precisely to improve relations,
RICARDO ALARCON

It's a way to express your feelings.
RICARDO ALARCON

The objective of this meeting was held hostage through tortuous manipulation,
RICARDO ALARCON

We have gotten the same message from U.S. officials -- in private -- several times that it is not ad...
RICARDO ALARCON

This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on...
RICARDO ALARCON

I believe in the word of the U.S. authorities. They have expressed themselves clearly in the proper ...
RICARDO ALARCON

What the world should fight is the monopoly that some have over weapons of mass destruction and, in ...
RICARDO ALARCON

To some, beautiful can mean a field with flowers, birds, trees, green grass and a clear blue sky, an...
RENE ALARCON

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be...
DANIEL BURNHAM

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information...
DANIEL GOLEMAN

A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even like...
DANIEL HUMM

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to ...
DANIEL BOONE

Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so ...
DANIEL HUMM

Everyone comes to live in New York because they want to achieve something, and for that reason, ther...
DANIEL HUMM

I think New York is truly unique in its singular combination of the quality of both the talent it at...
DANIEL HUMM

I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'...
DANIEL HUMM

You've got to listen to your guests.
DANIEL HUMM

Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects o...
DANIEL HUMM

If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a l...
DANIEL HUMM

I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonfu...
DANIEL HUMM

The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple te...
DANIEL HUMM

What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows...
DANIEL HUMM

I have fallen in love with granola, in life and at work. I exercise every morning, and then I have a...
DANIEL HUMM

I'm from Switzerland, so I grew up with great chocolate.
DANIEL HUMM

A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the ...
DANIEL HUMM

History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of hous...
DANIEL HUMM

Passion for what you do is essential to success in any profession. That passion naturally keeps you ...
DANIEL HUMM

My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and peop...
DANIEL HUMM

I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on somethi...
DANIEL HUMM

I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you hav...
DANIEL HUMM

At my restaurant, we made a dessert called 'milk and honey.' It's milk ice cream that lo...
DANIEL HUMM

We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs...
DANIEL HUMM

No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. Bu...
DANIEL HUMM

People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxi...
DANIEL HUMM

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
DANIEL DREW

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL

The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL

The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running expe...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN

As I mature as a chef, I no longer aim to pack multiple techniques and ingredients into a single dis...
DANIEL HUMM

Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very oft...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
DANIEL BOONE

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our d...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
DANIEL WEBSTER

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun...
DANIEL JOHNS

Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of...
DANIEL HANNAN

But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companie...
DANIEL YERGIN

But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a bu...
DANIEL YERGIN

I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It giv...
DANIEL TAMMET

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is ...
DANIEL KEYES

I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the ...
DANIEL GOLEMAN

You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to...
DANIEL HANNAN

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN

Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is ...
DANIEL WEBSTER

While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and...
DANIEL WEBSTER

The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws ...
DANIEL WEBSTER

The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the n...
DANIEL WEBSTER

When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally...
DANIEL WEBSTER

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
DANIEL WEBSTER

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work on brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples...
DANIEL WEBSTER

Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may ta...
DANIEL WEBSTER

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless tha...
DANIEL WEBSTER

They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doi...
DANIEL WEBSTER

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touche...
DANIEL WEBSTER

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
DANIEL WEBSTER

Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous war should sweep our commer...
DANIEL WEBSTER

Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more, a thousand times, to enr...
DANIEL WEBSTER

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of lib...
DANIEL WEBSTER

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
DANIEL WEBSTER

What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts o...
DANIEL WEBSTER

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transpa...
DANIEL GILLIES

I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the sou...
DANIEL GILLIES

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy p...
DANIEL GILLIES

I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad foo...
DANIEL GILLIES

Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
DANIEL GILLIES

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often...
DANIEL GILBERT

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make o...
DANIEL GILBERT

If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already...
DANIEL GILBERT

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of ...
DANIEL GILBERT

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think...
DANIEL GILBERT

Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to...
DANIEL GILBERT

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l...
DANIEL GILBERT

I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful ...
DANIEL GILBERT

I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and...
DANIEL GILBERT

Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the wors...
DANIEL GILBERT

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's ...
DANIEL GILBERT

The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and syste...
DANIEL GILBERT

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT

I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch...
DANIEL EVERETT

It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion ...
DANIEL EVERETT

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it bec...
DANIEL EVERETT

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some r...
DANIEL EVERETT

I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ...
DANIEL EVERETT

Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvatio...
DANIEL EVERETT

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and...
DANIEL EVERETT

I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic tr...
DANIEL EVERETT

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common...
DANIEL EVERETT

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to hu...
DANIEL EVERETT

Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA

Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA

When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
DANIEL ESPINOSA

It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age...
DANIEL ESPINOSA

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
DANIEL ELLSBERG

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
DANIEL ELLSBERG

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga...
DANIEL EK

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun...
DANIEL EK

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want...
DANIEL EK

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that...
DANIEL EK

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much c...
DANIEL EK

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact tha...
DANIEL EK

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
DANIEL EK

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
DANIEL EK

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal...
DANIEL EK

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
DANIEL EK

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening t...
DANIEL EK

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your ...
DANIEL EK

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a w...
DANIEL EK

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I lea...
DANIEL EK

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
DANIEL EK

Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
DANIEL EK

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
DANIEL EK

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
DANIEL DREW

We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
DANIEL DREW

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolutio...
DANIEL DENNETT

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on su...
DANIEL DENNETT

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds a...
DANIEL DENNETT

We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good ...
DANIEL DENNETT

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into t...
DANIEL DENNETT

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expressio...
DANIEL DENNETT

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction ...
DANIEL DENNETT

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage ...
DANIEL DENNETT

Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preservin...
DANIEL DENNETT

The mind is the effect, not the cause.
DANIEL DENNETT

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It ...
DANIEL DENNETT

For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

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