Sandra Cisneros Quotes

You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.

Sandra Cisneros

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• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • You
  • Bond

• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • God
  • Rights
  • Capitalism

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Change

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Fragrance
  • Lemon
  • Lime

• You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Process
  • Same

• Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • More
  • Nerd

• Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Terrorism
  • Oppression

• At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Best

• I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

  

  Bankei Yōtaku
  • Teacher

• Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

  

  Erland Josephson
  • Important
  • Acting
  • Stage

• You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Long
  • Sweet