Lindsay Mendez Quotes
I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I hate competition.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.
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I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
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Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
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You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.
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I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.
