The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. - Alma Guillermoprieto
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
- Alma Guillermoprieto
An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises. - Alma Guillermoprieto
An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.
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 Y… - Alma Guillermoprieto
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 Y…
Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool. - Alma Guillermoprieto
Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a br… - Alma Guillermoprieto
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a br…
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 intensel… - Alma Guillermoprieto
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 intensel…
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next? - Alma Guillermoprieto
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. - Alma Guillermoprieto
You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consisten… - Alma Guillermoprieto
Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consisten…
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