Sandra Cisneros Quotes
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.
