America Ferrera Quotes
When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I'm not a violent person.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.
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I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.
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When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.
