Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.

John Grant

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Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that.

Melissa Rosenberg

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I've never said I'm a communist.

John Lydon

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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Jeanne Moreau

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My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

Sister Souljah

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I don't think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that's crazy. Because I should. That's what I do. But I don't actually see that as my job. It's why my business cards say 'storyteller.'

Shonda Rhimes

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My job is to help Virat in the field. He is the captain, and whenever he looks up around, I should be around to complement him and help him as much as I could.

Rohit Sharma

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Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

Roxie Roker

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Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

Dick Van Dyke

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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

Serena Williams

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Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

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