Esai Morales Quotes
I remember doing 'La Bamba' and thinking, 'Do you really think that Latinos will be accepted in mainstream?' and I said, 'Someday I hope so, but there is no guarantee.'

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Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.
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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.
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Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.
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I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
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Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.
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Simple, yet effective!
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I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.
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I bought a trench coat from Dubai worth 495 dirham.
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Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.
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The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.