Gloria Estefan Quotes
Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
Quotes to Explore
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.
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Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!
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I write in a small office at home.
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I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.
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Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
