Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Think
  • Negative
  • Nostalgia

• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
  • Team

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • You
  • Talk

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Game
  • Street

• If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Home
  • Speak

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Fighting

• I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Better
  • Saturday
  • Dinner

• To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Religion

• I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Great
  • Deep
  • Restaurant

• People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • People
  • Family
  • Brave

• An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.

  

  Anupam Kher
  • Good
  • Why

• I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Duty
  • Liberties

• I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Literature