Elena Poniatowska Quotes
Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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People have always told me I look young for my age... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
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I made music just for myself.
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Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
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Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.
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I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.
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I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!
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The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.
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Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.
