Top 517 Quotes & Sayings by Chilean Authors - Page 7

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

I think that every player in every team must have an ambitious mind.

My dad is so impressed. He loves the movies and would take us two, three times a week, so this fantasy of mine of becoming an actor? I can blame my father for that. He's so amazed. And so happy.

In order to be something, you must do something.

I didn't have a voice or a vote at Madrid.

As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.

In Latin America, cinema has always been a bourgeois activity, I guess, as it is everywhere. It's just a stupidly expensive art form, and there is nothing you can do about it.

One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.

I never knew a manager that didn't have pressure.

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.

In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.

In fact, I often accept criticism because I feel it helps me to get better and get stronger. And I hardly ever remember the compliments.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows.

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

When I live in a country, I always try to learn about the country - not just England, the U.K. as a whole - so I will stay here some days to do something different.

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

When I moved to New York in '93, we'd go dancing a lot. That's what kept us in shape, I think.

When I am very tired, I know when I have to go in hard or slow down. It helps me to play better in the next match.

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Ever since I started watching Premier League, I found English football very appealing.

There are certain exercises that you can do to let go of the emotions you create when you play a certain role. Breathing techniques.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

I am very proud to be the first Chilean player ever to play for United's first team, and I hope I can show our fans all around the world why the club wanted to bring me here.

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

I didn't like to wear the same clothes as everyone else. I wanted to be special, also because I knew I needed something else. I found it more fun to play as a goalkeeper than any other position.

In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.

I believe that having a family in the dressing room is very important when it comes to winning trophies.

I was so obsessed with film and actors that I wasn't a very good student. I was always in trouble, but my father would always take us to the movies.

I don't really watch what I eat. I love sitting around with friends and eating loads and drinking loads for hours. Maybe when I'm 40 I'll worry about my diet.

I always said the same: I try to do my best, to support the team, to score goals, to win victories.

Playing every day with important players is good for a young player: you are always learning from experienced players.

Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

Sometimes we have to disobey in order to transcend, in order to survive.

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

It wasn't easy to leave Barcelona. I fulfilled a dream when I moved there - to play in Spain and for the champions - but very few players stay in the same club all their life. To leave is normal.

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

The most difficult thing is football is to give the ball to a player that has the same colour shirt.

Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.

If you do not know each player individually, one on one, it is impossible to form a team from 22 distinct personalities, different languages, different home countries, but with one common aim.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.

I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.