Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
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I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
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I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.
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Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
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Everyone is in a rush in New York, even in restaurants and in cafes. You dont have the serenity. That, I think, is very important in order to read.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
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I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.
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I had not seen lawns till fifth grade - big green lawns.
