Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
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Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.
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Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
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I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.
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But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly
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When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
