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Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Business Job Writing Things Sausage

I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

Good Sober December Got

We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.

Government Safety Gun Need Up Show

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.

Peace War World Elders Changes Side

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Day Think You More Little Than

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

Love Enough Write Things Fortunate

I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

Family Children People Me Think

Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.

Life Bad I Can Athlete Personal

No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I didn't like it, though. I remember being 12 years old, and I looked in the sky, and I said, 'God, I don't want to fight no more. I'm tired of fighting. I know what I want to do in my life, and fighting's not going to get me there.'

Life God Sky Fight Tired Me

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

Stars You Look Back Now Want

I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.

Work Music I Am Dress Construction

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

I Am Proud Prison Surviving Being

I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.

Me Grow Seeing Grow Up Emotional Up

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