Laura Esquivel Quotes
The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
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Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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I really pride myself in being able to combine soft and hard characteristics. If I do a leather jacket, then it will be with a really pretty feminine blouse underneath.
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Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord." Carol Leifer
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
