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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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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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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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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I hope 'Bamboozled' will serve as a roadmap that will assist Republicans in reaching out to women, black and Latinos. I believe once minority groups open their eyes and are not afraid to see truth, they will choose the party of Lincoln.
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Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.
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Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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.
