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.
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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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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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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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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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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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For months I had been trying to be less myself.
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We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.
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Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
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I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.
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The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.
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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.
