Valeria Luiselli Quotes
I can always, quite easily, put myself in other people's shoes, so to speak, and look at the world through them.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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I can always, quite easily, put myself in other people's shoes, so to speak, and look at the world through them.
