Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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There are two options: adapt or die.
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Once you dye your hair for the first time, you see other people with dyed hair, and you see them differently than you did before. And you're just like 'Yes! Live! Work that color! Yes, I love you in every way! You're killin' it! I want to do that color next!'
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...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
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I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.
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When you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary.
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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
