Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.
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The great bulk of the public doesn't believe this president any more when he tries to gin up a phony crisis. They don't believe he'd have much of an idea of how to deal with a real one. Enough of the lies. Enough of the incompetence and failure.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
