Sandra Cisneros Quotes

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

Sandra Cisneros

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• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • See
  • Wait
  • Monarchy

• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Food
  • Grew

• I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Someone

• I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that's because it was so personal and real to me.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Guy

• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fun

• And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Positive
  • New
  • Year

• The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Giving

• I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Russia

• She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Up
  • She
  • Game

• They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Time
  • Wonder
  • They Say

• I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Better
  • Working

• Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Personal
  • Random

• The foundation of beauty is the body.

  

  Azzedine Alaia

• Aldo needed to feel McGregor out. Coming right at him ran into McGregor's game. I thought he'd start by taking him down and confuse him a little. Maybe he had all that stuff planned, but one combo, and Aldo got caught. That happens, especially with a guy as talented and precise and full of power as Conor.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Power
  • Guy
  • Game

• Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Time
  • Children
  • Mother

• Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • Care
  • Married

• When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Children
  • Stills
  • Shy