Laura Esquivel Quotes
I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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My family is certainly very vocal. They're very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people screaming at each other across the room. And everyone's very opinionated and intelligent. A lot of my aunts and uncles are wildly educated, and their opinions reflect that. We're all very liberal.
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My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.
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Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.
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The only way to teach people how to truly do it and do it the right way, is to get those ingredients and kitchen tools in front of them and in their hands to use.
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If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.
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I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.
