Carmen Boullosa Quotes

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• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Working
  • Films

• Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses to the so-called Rust Belt - all of these things are valuable, if not more valuable, than running for office.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Small

• I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Money
  • Myself

• Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• ...reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Innocent

• From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • People

• In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • People

• We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • People
  • Country

• I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

  

  Donna Karan
  • People
  • Space
  • Fashion

• I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.

  

  Jerry Mathers
  • People
  • Kids

• I feel like I'm just doing a job. It's amazing to think that you affect other peoples' lives on such a grand scale. I'm so thankful for that, and I'm so lucky. It's hard to stop and think that people are interested in me.

  

  Kip Pardue
  • People
  • Job
  • Stop

• And also, I'm most comfortable with like two people just sitting and talking about their feeling, you know, in a room with like two cameras and that's it. And I wanted to do something where there was like action and running and you know crowd scenes and big set pieces and certainly did a lot of that, so yeah.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Action
  • Running

• For a person who is very much involved with the institution of religion but has lost the religious spirit, the 'religion' label is the real threat to liberty.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Real
  • Lost
  • Religious

• If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

  

  Carmen Boullosa
  • People
  • Death
  • Running