Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way it goes.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

Jenny McCarthy

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I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

Joel Edgerton

GoodMoneyWhySeeCommercialMovie

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

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We need to be creating products that incentivise women to come to the movies more.

Trudie Styler

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I really like writing for specific projects. It's a whole different way of writing when you have certain guidelines and a theme you're writing to. It's very inspiring.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

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I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Robert De Niro

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I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

Roxane Gay

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Things that have happened with Enron and companies like that, where they've squandered their employees' pension funds, I think it has brought a new level of anxiety. People don't feel like they can trust their employer.

Mike Huckabee

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I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

Juicy J

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There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.

Jason Statham

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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Jonathan Swift

MenGoldSometimesWhereKnowsVein

I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house.

Syd

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