Ray Santiago Quotes
I never had the opportunity to play a Latino character that is seen in a heroic, smart way.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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I'm a television junkie.
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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
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It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
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When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. I'm more comfortable being myself.
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My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.
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I don't like it when people shout on stage without any particular reason. It carries no weight.
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I never had the opportunity to play a Latino character that is seen in a heroic, smart way.
