Sandra Cisneros Quotes
The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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I love writing songs.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
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I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
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I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
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Our religions are much more similar than they are different.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I am an outspoken person. I believe in what I say.
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The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.
