Sandra Cisneros Quotes
The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.
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I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
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Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
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Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
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Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.
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The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.
