Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
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I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.
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I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
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I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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I'm a good friend.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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Since the election, President Trump has shown a persistent penchant for conspiracy-minded suggestions about his political opponents and elements of his own government.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.
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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
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And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
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Working Title gave me the job, and I was both excited and terrified.
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In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: “It’s better than nothing.
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Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
