Sandra Cisneros Quotes
When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
Sandra Cisneros
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I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
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I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.
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I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.
Chitra Ganesh
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
E. F. Schumacher
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It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.
Elizabeth Holmes
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
Patricia Cornwell
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When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
Sandra Cisneros
