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.
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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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When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.
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I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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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.
