Top 517 Quotes & Sayings by Chilean Authors - Page 6

Being Latino and being an actor has been a unique struggle and opportunity. When you don't fit into what may be a more stereotypical vision of somebody whose name is Pedro is, it can be a little bit harder to navigate.

Players sometimes need to feel important and loved by the club.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time.

I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but I felt that film had a condition that reunites everything.

I believe that a lot of what we put in our bodies really can harm us. It's been proven that people who eat Mediterranean and Japanese diets live for a very long time.

Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

I'd asked for things like the 'Footloose' soundtrack and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for my birthdays, but I remember walking what felt like miles to this cassette shop called The Warehouse to buy Paul Simon's 'Graceland,' U2's 'Joshua Tree' and a Roberta Flack album. I had pretty good taste.

You have to pick up things from the big teams, who are always in finals and winning big trophies.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

I am very lucky to have a wife who supports me, but the absence from my children was difficult from the moment I took a very difficult decision to have a career which requires so much dedication and focus, just like raising children.

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

I've always liked technical, creative central midfielders with the capacity to score goals, such as David Silva, Samir Nasri, and Santi Cazorla.

When I played for Barcelona, I knew that some home games were going to be easier than some others, as the team had plenty of confidence. That confident mentality helped Barcelona players win games.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

I am sure that the important managers always want to work here in the Premier League.

The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.

I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have.

I played in Spain, and we also had a very good dressing room, and I won a lot of things. So I think that in my experience of being in dressing rooms, it's so important to have a really good group.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence.

I had a breakthrough in my football life. Now I switch to the left. I make goals. I pass. I am evolving.

I'm happy in England and so is my family.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Samir Nasri is a very technical player who always made the difference playing as a midfielder when he is fit.

When you are in the biggest clubs, and you are fighting for the best players with a lot of money, maybe the work of a sporting director is not so difficult.

Arsene Wenger's style of play is the sort of style the Chilean national team has. Therefore, I am used to it.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

In my case, my life has changed and improved because different things have motivated me. For example, in the beginning, my motivation was to help my family. Later on, my motivation was to be the best.

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

You will never run more than the ball. The players that don't lose the ball are the most important in the team, and good players decide the game.

In Spain, I'd taken Villarreal to league runners-up and the quarter-final and then semi-final of the Champions League.

Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.

Since I was a child, I've always been annoyed if I didn't win. If I lost a match, I would be annoyed, and then I would just want to train so that I could win the next day.

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.

I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing.

I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, but it's really beautiful when it's done well, when it's within a story. I'm very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity is not taboo.

Steven Spielberg's name was all over 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' was out the same year, which every single parent took their child to. So despite 'Poltergeist' being a horror movie, I convinced my parents to let me see it. It was terrifying. I guess this says a lot about me as a six-year-old, because I loved it.

I had no interest in continuing with Real Madrid in the way that we were working.

Arsene Wenger is different. He's a purist. He's a professor of football. A professor.

Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.

If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.