Laura Esquivel Quotes
You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.
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I was an English major in college!
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?
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[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.
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You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.
