Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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I think celebrities suck.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
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I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.
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It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.
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The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.
