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.Laura Esquivel
Quotes to Explore
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
G. Willow Wilson -
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
Sam Trammell -
The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
Candace Kita -
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.
Ted Turner -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
Jackie Evancho
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso -
We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
Vanessa Kerry -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Taylor Swift -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
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.
J. J. Watt -
As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
Nancy Pelosi -
I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
Usher -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
Rita Mae Brown
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I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
Brander Matthews -
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.
Laura Esquivel