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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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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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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I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.
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I don't usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.
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For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.
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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
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I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.
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Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.
