Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Jorge Luis Borges had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
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So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
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Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
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I feel like I filled a niche for myself as a candy freak, trying to find candies all around the world that I couldn't find.
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Jorge Luis Borges had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.
