Laura Esquivel Quotes
Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
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There are no bad seats at the cabinet table.
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I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
