Angeles Mastretta Quotes
There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.
Quotes to Explore
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.
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When Raghavendra Rao garu approached me to do a film on Lord Venkateswara, my initial response was 'What more can we do than Annamayya?' But he asked me to go through the script, and I really liked it.
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I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point.
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Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.
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Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.
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There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.
