Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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 like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.
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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
