Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleBorderBordersWorthyWriter

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Jim DeMint

GovernmentPeopleRoseDebtTurnUp

You can't put out fire with fire.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

FireYouOutPut

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

John Michael Higgins

ArmyFriendsYouFindNavyAbility

You just need the ear. But the ear is something, I guess, that you can't buy. And I can't play the piano fluently, but I feel like my ear is my strong point.

Metro Boomin

StrongFeelYouPlayNeedPiano

Some people say they have a thirst for life. They're excited about every day and they're prepared to look the bad and the good straight in the face and greet it all with a smile. I like to think I'm one of those people.

Amy Jo Martin

LifeSmileGoodDayPeopleFace

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Steven Spielberg

New Year'sThinkYearPersonSingle

I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.

Robin Wright

GoodAgeParentsSocietyWeirdYou

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.

Rosanna Arquette

WaterBeachSweaterPhotographerOff

If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the world, and it's working, the logic is to keep putting the same product out there. And I think that really bumps up against the creative process - and moviemaking, generally. And I think that our company really pushes against that.

Jason Blum

BusinessCreativeSchoolWorldThink

I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.

Jason Mantzoukas

FaithTimeDaySongLateRock

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

Jason Winston George

AmericanTelevisionMoveFasterThan

After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.

Jose Andres

YearYouSometimesOilGoneOlive

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