Laura Esquivel Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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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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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
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In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
