Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.

Sandra Cisneros

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• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

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• It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

  

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• I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

  

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• This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

  

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• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

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• There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

  

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• I believe in my writing.

  

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• A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.

  

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• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

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• I take being a role model very seriously.

  

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• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  

  David Suzuki
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• One day, my father brings a cassette. He's showing me this, and he's like, 'Look at this guy, his name is Anthony Santos, like you.' I popped it on and started hearing the songs, the music, and I was like, 'Wow, this sounds great.'

  

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• It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

  

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• I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.

  

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• I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

  

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• It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

  

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• Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.

  

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• When a customer is really not happy, it's a very unpleasant experience.

  

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• I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.

  

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• If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

  

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• In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.

  

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• I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Reading