Cristela Alonzo Quotes
I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.
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Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.
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I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.
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I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.
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And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.
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I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.
