Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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No one person is an island.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.
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I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen.
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I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.
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These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration.
