Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
A. R. Ammons -
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
Ian Mckellen -
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
Zig Ziglar -
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
Hans Hofmann -
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
Bai Ling -
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
Finn Wittrock -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
H. R. McMaster -
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
Zig Ziglar -
Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
Oleg Cassini
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
Raghav Bahl -
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Garrison Keillor -
If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
Abby Wambach -
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma
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There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.
W. S. Merwin -
I never came into life with any favours or privileges.
Ken Livingstone -
Margaret Thatcher is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.
Austin Mitchell -
I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
Natasha Little -
There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.
Jesse Helms -
We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.
Luis Alberto Urrea