Cristela Alonzo Quotes
Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.
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I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
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I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.
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You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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I don't fear anything.
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Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.
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Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.
