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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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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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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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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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 told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
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We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
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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."
