Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

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• I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Love
  • Funny

• Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Game

• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Know
  • Year

• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

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

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Children
  • You
  • Learn

• It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Important

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

  

  Betty White
  • Children
  • Career
  • Justice

• 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.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• My accent depends on whom I'm around.

  

  Claire Forlani

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

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Blue

• The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Dirty

• I think baseball was really reality when I was a freshman in high school.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • School
  • High
  • Reality

• 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.

  

  James Frain
  • Good
  • Character
  • Book

• Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.

  

  Don Novello
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Thought
  • Vote

• I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Feels