Cristina Saralegui Quotes
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date!
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People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
