Ilan Stavans Quotes
'Hispanic' is a reference to Hispania, the name by which Spain was known in the Roman period, and there has always been strong ambivalence toward Spain in its former colonies.
Ilan Stavans
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
K. Flay
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley
I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
Randy Quaid
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Oprah Winfrey
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
Vincent Cassel
She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream.
Virginia Woolf
When I'm competing, I need to be strong.
Ashley Wagner
It wasn't always easy - getting dumped by my female friends for their newfound boyfriends, husbands, girlfriends stung; I felt like a jilted lover, heartbroken and wondering what I'd done wrong. But it was also easier to forgive them, to accept what time and energy they were willing to offer, even if it was less than what I wanted.
Jenna Wortham
I don't like to look a man in the eye.
Lech Walesa
'Hispanic' is a reference to Hispania, the name by which Spain was known in the Roman period, and there has always been strong ambivalence toward Spain in its former colonies.
Ilan Stavans