25 Quotations by Alma Guillermoprieto
- 1. A left-wing guerrilla is somebody who belongs to an organization that by now is 30 or 40 years old. ...
- 2. And in fact, I dream in whatever language I'm living in. So that, you know, after six months of bein ...
- 3. And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and ca ...
- 4. Hotel rooms, for example, are good places for me to write because they're so free of associations. I ...
- 5. I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
- 6. I read a lot. And both of my parents, I think, would have wanted to be writers. It's funny how one e ...
- 7. I think that the temptation to feel that your entire life has been wasted must be very great for a l ...
- 8. I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there ...
- 9. I tried to reconstruct just how and why I had stopped dancing years earlier. The turning point for t ...
- 10. I went to school at a school that doesn't exist anymore. It was called the Walden School, so you can ...
- 11. I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write ab ...
- 12. If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
- 13. Juan Peron, I think in the end, had become a little resentful of Eva. She was so popular. She was so ...
- 14. My great-great-great-I may be missing a great there-grandfather was called Guillermo Prieto, and he ...
- 15. One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
- 16. So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be ...
- 17. Somebody will come from Village X and then they'll send for the brother and then they'll send for th ...
- 18. The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language ...
- 19. The fact that I am temperamentally so unsuited to understand that country made my time there infinit ...
- 20. The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why ...
Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes by Power Quotations
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