Ian Williams Quotes
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
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The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a personal defilement. There are others, and I think I am one of them, who are entirely indifferent to where they live.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
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One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
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I grill, like, every day.
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I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like - that it's not just knowledge... but it's allowing the truth to change you - allowing Christ's message of grace and hope and love through the cross, that that message is the message that changes the way we look at everything in our lives.
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In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.
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What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
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I would never have thought that would happen, ... Remember, when I signed with the Giants in 1955, it was only eight years since Jackie Robinson. But when I talk to Latino players today, a lot of them don't even realize how hard it was for us then.
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Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.
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I don't want to be pitted as a person who is anti-Latino or anti-Hispanic because I believe in the laws.
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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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Great minds think for themselves.
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Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
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The moment you say, or , the skies will open for you and the non- physical energies begin instantly to orchestrate the manifestation of your desire.
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The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
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Juan and Andres pledge themselves to a Latino empowerment organization.
