Laura Esquivel Quotes
It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
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Things need to speed up absolutely everywhere. You can’t just have elite swimmers come from absolutely nowhere. So our focus is on the learn-to-swim side.
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If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.
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Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
