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All Quotes by author - Alma Guillermoprieto
" And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican. "
Will
Restaurant
You
" If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. "
Better
Young
Die
" I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens. "
Cooking
Food
Everything
" 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. "
Professional
Good
Care
" I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. "
Like
Mind
Concrete
" 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. "
Daily
Childhood
Power
" One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. "
Society
Language
Take
" 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. "
Always
Feel
Citizen
" 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. "
Me
Think
Talking
" 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. "
Money
Survive
Tax
" The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. "
Day
City
Construction
" There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile. "
Point
Make
No Point
" 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. "
Memory
Looking Back
Looking
" What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next? "
Day
One Day
Wonder
" You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring. "
Three
Boring
Go
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