Sandra Cisneros Quotes
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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Gsell: What astonishes me, is that your way is so different from that of other sculptors. They prose the model. Instead of that, you wait till a model has instinctively or accidentally taken an Interesting pose, and thon you reproduce It. Instead of your giving orders to the model, the model gives orders to you.
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There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.
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I've always weaseled my way into Grammy parties to network and everything, but now I have a legitimate reason to be there - it's so cool.
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In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
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As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.
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Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.
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I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
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Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus' pestering little sister.
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I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.
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When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
