Cristela Alonzo Quotes
I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.
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For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
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I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls.
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I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'
