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America Ferrera Quotes

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.

America Ferrera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: April 18, 1984

Topics

Culture Day Me Growing Up American

I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.

Jesmyn Ward

Me Voice Place Know Important Minds

We should address the issues for nonprofits and pensions and why they need to invest in these offshore funds.

Steve Mnuchin

Why Need Invest Issues Should Funds

I just want to be a good storyteller.

Sia

Good Want Just Storyteller

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Rollo May

Communication Community Understanding

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

Jules Verne

Words Walls Man Ideas Lose Up

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

Joseph Howe

Power Punishment Inquiry Shape Able

Rushdie is a hostage.

Don DeLillo

Hostage

Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.

Chris Wooding

Work Good Character Ending Better

I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

Brendan Coyle

Father Escape Destruction Difficulty

You have to play with the mentality that you are about to lose your job, and that they're going to talk about 'The Other Guy' first. You have to think, 'I want my name mentioned first.'

Brett Favre

Job Think Name You Lose Play

I've been in the habit of helping people.

Seamus Heaney

Habit People Helping People Been

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.

Mark Kurlansky

Book Think View Said Sometimes Read