Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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• It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Game
  • Passion
  • Football

• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • She
  • Woman
  • Body

• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • History
  • Knowledge

• In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Think
  • You
  • End

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Space
  • Ship
  • Captain

• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• India is my kid sister.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Sister
  • Kid
  • India

• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Black
  • Color

• Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Business

• I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Film
  • Acting

• It used to be you wanted to marry up.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Up
  • You
  • Used

• The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Best
  • Being

• I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Car
  • Years
  • Old

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Director

• If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be able to prevent disagreements from arising, but you stand a better chance of preventing them from spiraling out of control.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • May
  • Control
  • Style

• Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Bad

• My taste changes radically all the time, and I listen to whatever feels good. Another thing is that I'm in the studio so much of the time, and I listen to so much loud, aggressive music for work, that for pleasure, I'll listen to something else.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Changes
  • Studio
  • Aggressive

• I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

  

  Sidney Sheinberg
  • Confidence
  • Mentor
  • Guiding

• I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea