Maria Cornejo Quotes

Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!

Maria Cornejo

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Short

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Experience
  • Feet
  • Lamp

• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  

  Mac Davis
  • World
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Important
  • Career
  • Fans

• I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Want
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

  

  Samm Levine
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Happy
  • Media
  • Social Media

• As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Books
  • Author

• I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Giving
  • Point
  • Crush

• I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Women
  • Girl

• The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Government
  • Democracy

• When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • Day

• Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Life
  • May
  • Talk

• The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or the artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

  

  Larry Wall

• I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.

  

  Carolyn Chute
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

  

  Nick Johnson
  • Hit
  • Runs
  • Get On

• Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Character

• It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Success
  • Learn
  • Fail

• Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!

  

  Maria Cornejo