Sandra Cisneros Quotes
"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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Bring out the eyes.
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I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
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You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.
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Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.
