Denise Chavez Quotes
If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.
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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!
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Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
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Pantelion and Televisa can reach my core fan base better than anyone, and with the distribution expertise and brand recognition of Lionsgate, I know we can build on the crossover audience that we began to reach with 'Instructions.'
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I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
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I would fain die a dry death.
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The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
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If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.
