Cristela Alonzo Quotes
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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I was a pretty difficult teenager.
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
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I have a fairly limited drawing style. I'm not like my friend Derek Kirk Kim, who can pretty much change his style at will. My drawing style can handle some of my stories, but not all of them.
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I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.
