Cristela Alonzo Quotes
My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
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I'm not someone so much interested in exploring a slice of life unless that is down the corridor, around the corner, up the alley, and down the rabbit hole. That, I like.
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Whatever people want to call me, I'm cool with, except 'Zinger.'
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It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.
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I'm excited to wear my country's jersey.
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My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.