Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
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I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?
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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.
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Everything that I do, I try to put myself into it.
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The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.
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We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.
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I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.
