Rosie Perez Quotes

I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I did live part-time with my aunt in Brooklyn.

Rosie Perez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 6, 1964

Topics

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It may sound crazy, but maybe there's an economic way of producing a leather-like product in the laboratory.

Jochen Zeitz

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The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

John Shadegg

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The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.

Amanda Foreman

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I can see why people love the idea of a big white wedding - it is a day when they are the centre of attention and get to wear a beautiful dress. But that sounds awful to me because that is like getting ready to walk down the red carpet.

Lucy Punch

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I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

Derek Walcott

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Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Douglas Coupland

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I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

Douglas Booth

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I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.

Christa McAuliffe

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Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

Bonnie Raitt

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'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

Alice Munro

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It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Susan George

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I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

Penn Jillette

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