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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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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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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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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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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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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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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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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Marikana is a huge wake-up call.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.
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I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
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The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.
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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.
