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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
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 a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.
Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.
And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.
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