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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.

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• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

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• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

  

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• There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'

  

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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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• I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

  

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• Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.

  

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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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• I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

  

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• Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

  

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• I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.

  

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• I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

  

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• To me, pause is sometimes the most important, most effective moment in a film or play or anything.

  

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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.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
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