Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
I've always been ambitious. I've always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.
I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.
'Hispanic' is a reference to Hispania, the name by which Spain was known in the Roman period, and there has always been strong ambivalence toward Spain in its former colonies.
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
The relationship between stars and their fans is always ambivalent and often highly charged with contradictory and ambivalent emotions, of which the most powerful is need.
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.
There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.
No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.
The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
American literature has always been immigrant.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
