Ana Castillo Quotes

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Ana Castillo

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SocietyAestheticYouWhiteWant

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Jodi Picoult

WorkDayJobWaitingPeopleWriting

I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.

John Green

WorldThinkInternetPlaceRiding

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

Michael Caine

ReligionPeopleYouClassSixties

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Stanley Crouch

ForwardAmericaGoNeedRenaissance

I love mirrors.

Sophia Amoruso

LoveMirrorsI Love

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

Tracey Gold

GoodGirlPeopleMeGrowing Up

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

Martin O'Malley

OpinionYouNewForgeConsensus

I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just make Shakespeare as vivid and live as possible.

Michelle Gomez

LiveExperienceSchoolBadWrong

Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

Lisa Guerrero

TogetherGoAttractiveBeing

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

Dolph Lundgren

DayMeditationDifferenceBreathing

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

Derek Bailey

WorkPeopleFreeKindWayOutside

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

StruggleLongNumbersMoralTurn

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