Esmeralda Santiago Quotes
We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.Esmeralda Santiago
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Barton Gellman -
I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
Jackson Brundage -
I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
Vaclav Klaus -
What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
Zeljko Ivanek -
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
Mara Wilson -
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Sam Abell
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
Zac Goldsmith -
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
Marat Safin -
Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
J. K. Simmons -
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey -
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
Nancy Pearcey -
My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.
Maggie Rowe
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
Walter Jon Williams -
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Patrick Stewart -
I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
R. L. Stine -
Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
Laini Taylor -
I'm completely the opposite of what I play on 'Game of Thrones.'
Carice van Houten -
Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
Samuel Barnett
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I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!
Louisa May Alcott -
People approach you for the work they have seen you do. I don't think people see me as a lover boy dancing around, so I haven't received a role of that kind. I'm going to do roles that appeal to me.
Barun Sobti -
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
Ray Bradbury -
People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
Major Owens -
We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.
Esmeralda Santiago