Ana Castillo Quotes
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
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I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
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‘Alf Todd,’ said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ‘has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat’s ear with a red-hot needle.’
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There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
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I just want to send a message to my fans saying that it's OK to admit that you need help, and it doesn't make you weak.
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In high school, I decided that all of my female friends were stupid and traded them for guy friends. I loved horror movies and heavy metal and used these interests to become a 'guys' girl.'
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I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
