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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I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.
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Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.
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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
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I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
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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.
