Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.
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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
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I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.
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I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.
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Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.
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People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.
