Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring. - Alma Guillermoprieto

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next? - Alma Guillermoprieto

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. - Alma Guillermoprieto

Translation is a notoriously thankless profession: there is absolutely no money in it; it involves a severe submersion of the self into another; the hours are long and you get about as much recognition for your efforts as the telephone repairman. - Alma Guillermoprieto

These kids who have no place in the world, who nobody has ever made room for, look at least for a place in time, in the present through fashion. It's vitally important to them to look right. When they get money from a job, they spend it immediately on something for their mothers and on clothes. Of course they're not going to have any respect for their fathers, in their shabby old backcountry suits! - Alma Guillermoprieto

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile. - Alma Guillermoprieto

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. - 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 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. - Alma Guillermoprieto

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