Estela Portillo Trambley Quotes
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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We've been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don't want someone who will decide those issues for us - but decide them 'our' way. If we did, a White House bureaucrat with good horse sense might be just the ticket.
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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What's really great about the Archie Comics as a whole is that everybody is relatable.
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.
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exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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We are living 'between the times' - the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a 'down-payment', on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.
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The smell of rain is rich with life.
