Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. [...] You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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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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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
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Think your own thoughts.
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Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
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There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.
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I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.
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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
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I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
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Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.
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I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
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Herb Brown is like a basketball icon. What's the saying - he's forgotten more than I'll ever know.
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Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.
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Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. [...] You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.
