Cristela Alonzo Quotes

I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.

Cristela Alonzo

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• In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Strong
  • My Life

• Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Aid
  • Foreign Aid

• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Youth
  • To Love

• If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • People
  • Work
  • Name

• I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • You
  • Running

• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Beauty

• Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Story
  • Joys
  • Pains

• There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Image

• Hits and flops are overrated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hits
  • Overrated
  • Flops

• The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Women
  • Nothing
  • Vote

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • God
  • Truth
  • True

• Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Expectations
  • Meet

• I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Think
  • Hurt
  • Humor

• My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Me
  • Childhood

• Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Good
  • Different
  • Mood

• You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Bad

• You can often tell the difference between a singer that grows up in the church and one that just can sing. There's a connection to love and support and care. You feel good when you hear it. You feel the people have so much conviction in what they're singing. They believe it, so you believe it.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I lived near the border with China, and one night, I simply left home and walked across the iced-over river that separated the two countries. I was fortunate that my family had close relationships with some of the border guards, so I was able to cross without incident.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Family
  • Home
  • Night

• I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Music
  • Family

• I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Family