Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: August 20, 1955

Topics

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There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

Joe Kennedy III

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Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Anish Kapoor

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I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Roger Ebert

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In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Russel Honore

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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Miguel de Unamuno

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In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Lou Gramm

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If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven't found that right girl yet.

Josh Henderson

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I want to do more TV and more books. I want to have my hand in different projects. I'm way too hyper; I'm just one of those people who has to have a lot going on.

Johnny Iuzzini

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I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

Dick Dale

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I get very nervous about not being around the office.

Arash Ferdowsi

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