Hector Elizondo Quotes
I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
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My mom was a single parent.
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I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.
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When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
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I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
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My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.
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I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.
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I think that in the diaspora, and among immigrants, religion becomes a vehicle for the transmission of cultural information, and cultural codes, and this does end up re-inscribing certain things about the religion - like caste. Caste discrimination and hierarchy are still a very fundamental and violent part of Hinduism. My family was upper caste, and that was very clear. I feel like caste and religious practice are inextricable, actually.
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A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.
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If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.
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I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
