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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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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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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Art is born of humiliation.
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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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Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.
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I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
