Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.
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I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.
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I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.
