Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
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I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.
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I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.
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I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.
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I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.
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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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Every character I do has a bit of my mum in her. She's like the doyenne of Dayton, Ohio.
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There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.
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I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story.
