Gary Soto Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?
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There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
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When I get to the movie set, I don't need to have a sort of iron fist that a movie is about me and my ideas. A lot of filmmakers don't have that benefit, so when they have their moment to let all that creativity out of them, it's all about them. It's their movie; it's their thing.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.
