Ana Castillo Quotes
We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Amerindians/mestizas are the dark. We are the evilor at least, the questionable.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I am not honest.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I want to have a long career.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.
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I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.
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What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.
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Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.
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Watch out world, we're here to change ya!
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We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Amerindians/mestizas are the dark. We are the evilor at least, the questionable.
