Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.
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I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.
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There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
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People have to evolve.
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I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.
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You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.
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Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.
