Sandra Cisneros Quotes
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I'm very passionate.
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
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My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.
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When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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'I think it is so glorious,' said the American. 'There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.'
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Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.
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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
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If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
