Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.
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You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
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What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.
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My mom says I was born screaming.
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There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.
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But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.
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A lot of what I write is very personal.
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During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.
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My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.
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I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.
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Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.
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Kant ... discovered 'the scandal of reason,' that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.
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'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.
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I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.
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Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.
