Laura Esquivel Quotes
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'
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Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
