Cierra Ramirez Quotes
I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.
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Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.
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Words have power. The things that you say to yourself as a parent - the things that you say maybe even just one time to your children - they take it, and they take it into their real world and into their life and beyond.
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If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.
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When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.
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I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.
