Ana Castillo Quotes

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

Ana Castillo

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LifeChicagoWhereSenseWholeVery

I don't think politics and sport should be mixed up.

Johan Eliasch

PoliticsThinkUpShouldMixed

It can go two ways with girls: They either bond or eat each other alive.

Jenji Kohan

BondAliveGoTwoEatEither

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

Mel Smith

GoodBusinessStartEndComedyYou

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

Matthew Desmond

TimeLosingWritingBattleLiving

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.

Steve Lacy

MeGoKindProductionCallBefore

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Stephen Sondheim

WrittenMusicalRewrittenComedies

I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.

Romola Garai

ActionPoliticalYouI CanMilitary

I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.

Roma Downey

LifeParentsMy LifeLostYoung

I am obviously a striker who likes to score a lot of goals and have done that in every team I have been with.

Luis Suarez

GoalsI AmTeamDoneScoreBeen

Biscuits are sweet things in Britain, and apparently in America a biscuit is something like a scone, something savory that you'd have with soup.

Mini Grey

SweetSoupAmericaYouSomething

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

Louis Navellier

TimeStock MarketYearsWithinBeat

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Jay Leno

BusinessPoliticsUglyPeopleJust

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