Esmeralda Santiago Quotes
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All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.
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When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.
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Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.
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I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise...
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Getting even is one reason for writing.
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We never settle for 'This is good enough.' It always has to be amazing because that's the kind of music we'd want to listen to, and that's the kind of music we want to give to other people.
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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
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You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.
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Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through.
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I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.
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No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
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To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.
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In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.
