Carlos Carrizosa was born in Barcelona, ??he is 60 years old. He graduated in Law. He has worked as a printer and criminal lawyer. He has been a Citizens deputy in the Parliament since 2012. He is divorced and has three children.
He just turned 60 years old. Congratulations! How are you doing? What is your vital status?
Thank you so much. My vital state is above all determination. If they say to me, “Are you excited?”, I don’t know if I have to be excited, definitely yes.
In these 12 years one day you will have thought ‘I’m quitting, I can’t take it anymore’.
No no. Absolutely. I have had very good companions and we support each other.
What is the first thing you do when you get home?
I tell Alexa ‘play music’. I put on comfortable clothes and think about how much time there is to make dinner, I think about whether I have things taken out of the freezer and I sit in a rocking chair next to the window, I pick up my cell phone and look at what I might have gotten in, with another part of my mind. brain at dinner and what I’m going to watch on TV while I eat dinner.
What music does Alexa play?
I usually play soul and jazz music, and especially the classics.
And what do you see on TV?
I watch various YouTube videos, often about history or philosophy or things like that while I make dinner. And then, when I see the movie, if it’s possible it’s a comedy, something light, I’m not into jokes, I want distraction, anything about cataclysms, I don’t care.
How many hours do you usually sleep?
Very few in a row. Maybe six, sometimes less.
What do you have for breakfast?
It depends on how much of a hurry you are. What is never missing is a coffee with oat milk. And many times I go for nuts and raisins, or some toast with cheese, with turkey, some tomato. Everything very fast.
Do you like to cook?
No, but they forcibly hang them. And what I do is follow YouTube recipes or call my sisters or my ex and ask them.
Have you ever been on a diet?
Just before I turned 60 I thought about watching what I eat a little more. And for the first time in my life I looked at calories and I’m eating healthier and it feels good.
Do you do sports?
Something about ellipticals and weights. Little.
How would it be defined?
I am quite reliable, I am predictable and I try to behave with others correctly, with respect, and justice. I don’t usually make enemies. I am treatable, despite what it may seem like what I have been told.
What would you change about yourself?
Maybe you would prefer to be more organized, keep schedules. Like the monks, who are there, with their matins and the day everything organized.
Are you a believer?
No, no, I would like to, I would have a handle, but I can’t get it.
Have you smoked marijuana?
Many years ago, when I was young. As an adult he hasn’t given me anything. Only in pipe.
What did your family do?
My father was a graphic arts businessman, printer, and my mother was a housewife.
What posters did you have in your room as a teenager?
When I was a teenager, I remember a poster of Kim Basinger in Nine and a Half Weeks.
What did you want to do?
Since I was 10 years old I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer because I watched the series Perry Mason. And also by a professor who set up a mock trial and I observed the one who played the lawyer and the one who played the prosecutor and I thought that I would have done much better.
Your first job?
Printer. From a very young age and during my career I worked with my father, I used offset machines. Then I worked as a lawyer.
And your private life? Before I was talking about his ex-wife…
Exactly, she was my partner and, well, she is. She runs the office. We have a phenomenal deal. My three children are delighted, we do all the things we have to do, together, with the children, and we are well treated and we also share professional interests.
Printer, lawyer and politician, which job do you feel most like?
My father taught me to love the profession of graphic arts, books, publishing. Then, the legal profession was my dream and my vocation. And the political career is what completes it, and I am very proud of the opportunity I have had.
What hobbies do you have?
Especially reading. And with my children, go to the countryside or the sea, things of that type but always with a book. Then, I have been looking for fossils for many years, I had my 4×4, I went along the trails and wherever necessary, with geological maps. And I found things.
Paleontology fan.
But I’m not that into it anymore. When you like something, you look for manuals, you meet the main paleontologists and, in the end, it is a curiosity about the history of life. And it has beastly ramifications, in the evolution of animal species, in botany, and that takes you to geology, the formation of terrain, of mountains.
What do you like to read?
I don’t have time to read everything I would like to. Now, for example, I have 80 books or so on the table, and you pick them up, it goes in spurts. It’s a bit chaotic, because I don’t have that much time and yet I’m very busy.
He must read on the weekend, at night he says he watches TV.
Clear. At night what I do is a little ridiculous, but since we are in this interview…, I take the Kindle, which has lighting, until I fall asleep. If not, sometimes in bed you start to think about the day and have a hard time sleeping.
Clear.
And I escape enough that my brain begins to lose itself and then I fall asleep.
Do you go to concerts, the theater?
I try to go to concerts and the theater. I can’t always combine it, but yes. Because it is a pleasure and because it is an activity that we have to make last.
Lawyer series, politics?
About lawyers or politics, nothing. The last one I liked is Tokyo Vice, by a journalist who investigates the Yakuza. Something violent, enough to see her having dinner, but with grace and dramatic tension very well achieved.
Have you done something crazy for love?
I think so. And basically they have consisted of you not caring about everything, and although it may go wrong and although I see that it is not going anywhere, it is what I want and I am going for it.
What is your life motto or a phrase that inspires you?
There is one that I like, which is from a brand of waterproof watches: Don’t crack under pressure, that is, don’t break under pressure. And I like that. Lets gather.
