Laura Esquivel Quotes
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I like vibrant colors.
