Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
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I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
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They don't observe the Sabbath, they don't observe the Torah, they don't pray, they don't put on phylacteries every day. Is it any wonder that they're killed? It's no wonder. May the Almighty have mercy on them and bring them back to religion.
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Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party-whether he realizes it or not-must always come out the worse.
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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
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I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.
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I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
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I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.
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I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
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In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
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I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
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He's good at that, ... But I can tell. I'm around him a lot. I couldn't even explain it. But I can feel it. He definitely wants to produce. It's not like he's getting any younger. The time to do it is now.
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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.
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I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.
