Irene Cara Escalera (Irene Cara) Quotes
I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.
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Drink beer, smoke dope, and eat pussy until your jaw breaks.
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I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.
