Mario Vargas Llosa
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KATE MULGREW I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves any... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB I've always said that music is like literature. JOSE CARRERAS I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn... RAHA MOHARRAK RICK RIORDAN RICHARD DAWKINS I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they&... TAIYE SELASI A. S. BYATT GEORGE HENRY LEWES WHITLEY STRIEBER I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. DOUGLAS SIRK I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make ma... ALICE EVE To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that ... BUTCH TRUCKS WILLIAM HAGUE JOYCE CAROL OATES STEVE WINWOOD MOSHE SAFDIE RANDI WEINGARTEN DONALD JUDD It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature.... DON WINSLOW I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the ... PER PETTERSON ARUNDHATI ROY HUGH JACKMAN VLADIMIR HOROWITZ JOHNNY WEIR It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better ... GAVID HOOD MARIO VARGAS LLOSA VLADIMIR PUTIN I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that ... GABY HOFFMANN I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and... ROUSTAM TARIKO BILL CLEGG JAMES HILLMAN AUNJANUE ELLIS In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe... TABITHA KING I don't fit neatly into anybody's political boxes, and I think that sometimes disturbs peopl... LISA MURKOWSKI A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard ... GONG LI AARON SPELLING MAGGIE SMITH BEN CARSON My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it d... PATRICK DEWITT MARIO VARGAS LLOSA NORMAN ROCKWELL A. S. BYATT MARGARET ATWOOD I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion maj... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. RAVI SHANKAR NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that. BARRY JENKINS I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second sem... PHILIPP MEYER COLUM MCCANN AGNES GUND Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother... ELLIOT ACKERMAN TIMOTHY DALTON JUNOT DIAZ DAVID CHRISTIAN When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi."KATE GRIFFIN I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is al... ROBERT J. SAWYER ALFRED DE VIGNY ALAN MOORE Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. ARMAND ASSANTE There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. Bu... MICHAEL PALIN Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp... S. J. ROZAN MARK TWAIN I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. UTADA HIKARU CARLOS FUENTES STIEG LARSSON BEYONCE KNOWLES Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big messag... CATERINA SCORSONE BARBARA EHRENREICH RICHARD DAWKINS MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV JAY-Z MAGGIE Q ERICA JONG DAVID BAILEY I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. DASHIELL HAMMETT I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. ... AUSTAN GOOLSBEE ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO GRANDMA MOSES I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I ... REBECCA FERGUSON JAMES FREY My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is... THOM YORKE GEORGE MICHAEL
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