Top 30 Hector Tobar Quotes
#1. The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.
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#2. Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.
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#3. Omar realizes that the improbable fact of their survival also carries a hint of the divine. To be alive in this hole, against all odds, speaks to Omar of the existence of a higher power with some sort of plan for these still-living men.
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#4. I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.
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#6. You defend your humanity with patience and determination, by making your voice heard to those who judge you a lesser being for your timeworn clothes, your callused hands, and your sunburned skin.
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#7. I think that we had a really loyal, great audience on Tuesdays and we were hoping that with the move, they would come with us. It looks like they have, so things are good and we are going to keep building.
Sarah Chalke
#8. That's the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate," he says. "That's what's beautiful about being a miner: Supernatural things always happen." Now
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#10. I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry.
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#11. I've never been on a paperback tour before, you know, because usually you go on tour when a hardcover comes out.
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#12. You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.
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#13. Chile was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to legalize divorce,
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#14. She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.
P.G. Wodehouse
#15. If you can sit here and talk to a person you don't know very well, and talk about all these things you've been through - that's something. That's courage. It's knowing yourself.
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#16. Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
#17. If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.
Charles Spurgeon
#18. I think, as journalists, we sometimes are afraid to enter into the emotional lives and the complications of the lives of the people we write about - we don't really have the space and the room to deal with those things. But as a novelist, that's precisely what you're writing about.
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#19. Before he loved you, I suffered alongside him ... I was his son before he even met you ... Don't we need to be taken care of, too? "With all that money, the chicken coop [of relatives] gets all mixed up and the family gets warped," Jessica says.
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#20. My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.
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#21. 500 calories a day for the first few days, largely with an energy drink that's supplemented with potassium, phosphates, and thiamine, a B vitamin that the body uses up during starvation.
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#22. One day the "Good Morning Everyone" team announces that the government of the Dominican Republic has offered to bring all thirty-three miners and their families to a relaxing resort in that Caribbean island nation.
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#23. As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I've learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised.
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#24. He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it," he says later.
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#25. The desert around the mine was covered with flowers, after a rare shower a few days earlier. The Vegas remember the songs they sang that night, including the one that Roberto wrote about "El Pato" Alex and his seventy-year-old father entering the mountain to search for him.
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#26. Without thiamine, feeding the men could trigger Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a nerve disorder
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#27. In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.
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#28. I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.
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#29. Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
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#30. I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.
Hugh Panaro
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