Jennine Capó Crucet Quotes

I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born in Cuba - and we didn't yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.

Jennine Capó Crucet

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• My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Women
  • Way

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Think

• Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Freaks
  • Galactica

• Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Issue

• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Together
  • Black
  • Path

• Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Talent
  • Talk
  • Toughness

• He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Wisdom

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need for method acting. This is what I have learnt from Bharat Muni's 'Natya Shastra' and from the Russian theatre legend Stanislavsky.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Interesting

• Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Positive

• The heart is the best reflective thinker.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Thinker

• When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Past
  • Nation
  • Landscape

• The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

  

  Cyril Connolly

• If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

  

  Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Father

• I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.

  

  Anita Baker
  • Time
  • Great
  • Children

• The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.

  

  Jared Kushner
  • Family
  • Rest
  • Friendship

• My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Different
  • Family
  • Kids

• Girls will go out and spend $200 or $300 dollars on a pair of shoes, but you should also be taking care of your skin. That's the first thing people see. I think it's an investment. It's a lot cheaper to use really great products now, rather than trying to fix problematic skin later on in life. That's always been my motto.

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born in Cuba - and we didn't yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.

  

  Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Family
  • Generation
  • Cuba