Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
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From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
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I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
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Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
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I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.
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Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
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Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.
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Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
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I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
