Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I don't read books.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
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Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
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I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."
