Esmeralda Santiago Quotes
I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
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There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.
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The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
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We invite people in the West End to come find out how you can be a part and find out how you can make the neighborhood the best place to live.
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The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.
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Last word in lonesome is me.
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.
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You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.
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Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing the holy name of the Lord, he cleanses the hearts of the most fallen people. Therefore he extinguishes the blazing fire of the material world. Not only that, he broadcasts the shining brightness of Krishna's effulgence throughout the world. Such an acarya, or spiritual master, should be considered nondifferent from Krishna that is, he should be considered the incarnation of Lord Krishna's potency.
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I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.
