Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 27, 1948

Topics

WritingSpeakUnderstandingWant

I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.

Jim Crace

LieMeYouYesterdayWantTell

The people that work the border will tell you that physical barriers, backed up by men and women, is what we need to secure the southwest border.

John F. Kelly

WorkWomenMenPeopleBorderYou

It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable.

Matthew Ashford

MeUps And DownsMemorableDaysSome

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

RootsBlackSkinForgottenBlackness

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

Tony Bradman

TeenBelieveDeepPresentFeelSeem

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Robert Carlyle

HollywoodWholeJustLikeThing

Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

RuPaul

PowerBelieveUniverseYouHype

You earn the title of favourite when you win. It's not when people say you're a favourite because of past achievements; it's when you show it on the pitch.

Julen Lopetegui

PastPeopleWinYouSayEarn

I started doing the big Hollywood stuff, and I realised, 'Oh, there's no rehearsal at all; you just turn up on the set, and sometimes you haven't even met the other actor, or the woman who's playing your wife, and you're suddenly in bed with them.'

David Thewlis

WifeWomanDoingYouBedSometimes

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.

Chuck Palahniuk

PeopleIdeasYearWayWriteUp

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

William Slim

CourageMoralVirtueThanHigher

I want to work in films but without compromising on my dignity.

Pratyusha Banerjee

WorkDignityWantWithoutFilms

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