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.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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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's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.
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Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
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I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material is good, I'm not going to say 'I'm just going to do this' or 'I have to do one of everything.' I'm not thinking like that.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
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In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.
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I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Maybe 'Doonby' will haunt people for awhile and make them wonder, 'What was that really about?' And that excites me as an artist.
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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.
