Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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The foreign policy of the Democrats is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. In contrast, the foreign policy of the Republicans and proclaimed by presidential candidate Trump is good for Europe and means life for Hungary.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
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I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
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Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.
