Pam Muñoz Ryan Quotes
Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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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 think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
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I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
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Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.
