Sandra Cisneros Quotes

Even my mom. I have to tell her, "If you want a snack, don't go to bed with potato chips. Eat a handful of pistachios and a handful of dates."

Sandra Cisneros

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• Potatoes
• Chips
• Snacks
• Pistachios

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.

  

  Dan Coats
  • People
  • American
  • Voting

• I love red or deep purple lips for events.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Deep
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• I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Day
  • Survival

• Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Attention
  • Relationships

• My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Good
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• I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Job
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• Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Different
  • Emotions

• On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Numbers
  • Data

• The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Death
  • Respect
  • Ideas

• You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Business

• Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Famous
  • Loved
  • Wrestling

• I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music
  • Famous

• I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
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• The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Time
  • Way
  • Scene

• - You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Men
  • Why
  • She

• I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

  

  Umar
  • Inspiring
  • Arrogance
  • Arrogant

• Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Love
  • Being
  • Source

• You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Bed

• Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Soul
  • Humble
  • Fearful

• Even my mom. I have to tell her, "If you want a snack, don't go to bed with potato chips. Eat a handful of pistachios and a handful of dates."

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Bed
  • Potatoes
  • Chips