Laura Esquivel Quotes
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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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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 was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
