Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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I can do whatever I want.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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I love Chanel.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.
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People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.
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I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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I began writing as an experimental writer.
