Sandra Cisneros Quotes

You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

Sandra Cisneros

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• I love working the legislative process.

  

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

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• It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

  

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• You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Waiting