Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CulturePlayHotEatMineCatholic

It's okay to be sad if things don't go the way you had hoped.

Jessie James Decker

SadYouGoWayOkayThings

The think that we hung the film version all on was 'Hedwig' on tour. On stage, it's one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes.

John Cameron Mitchell

ChangeMistakesPracticeTheatreGo

Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I'll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.

Maxine Peake

CharacterFoodWindowThinkLose

I have never believed that central banks should have rigid inflation targeting. That is not a good thing to stabilize. There is nothing in economic theory to back this.

Robert Mundell

GoodBackNothingNeverTheory

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

DepressionMovingConnectionCancer

We have to remain vigilant, and we have to continue to take the fight to the terrorist.

Tom Cotton

FightTakeContinueVigilantRemain

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

Colin Kaepernick

I AmPeopleStand UpColorPrideUp

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.

Bruno Dumont

ChangeMemoriesGreatMindMeShe

Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm.

Peter Lerangis

GreatWifeCreativePeopleMeOver

L.A. can make you feel like you've already made it. You're living off 40 dollars a week; it's nice weather. You go outside on your bike; you go to the coffee shop, and everybody is doing nothing. It doesn't leave a lot of room for ambition.

Tobias Jesso, Jr.

CoffeeBikeAmbitionWeatherDoing

I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy.

Mark Waid

TimeBestJoyHappyBe HappyWorld

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.

Julie Brown

FunHave FunWantSuccessfulJust

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