Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.

Jennie Finch

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If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.

Melissa Rosenberg

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Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people.

Robert Kennedy

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When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

Ann Hood

DeathBrainWillAlwaysActivity

You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there.

Sturgill Simpson

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You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking, dashing kind of guy. I mean, there's a role for that guy in television, films, whatever. But people who are able to shape-shift and go from drama to comedy to whatever, there's an art to it. Especially in Hollywood.

Rocky Carroll

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Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Ron Silver

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Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a different attitude.

Ronnie Corbett

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I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

Miuccia Prada

Be DifferentFirstAlwaysDifferent

As long as you put me out on the court, I was gonna play hard.

Brandon Jennings

MeLongYouPlayHardOut

I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.

Allyson Felix

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Millions of Americans are denied the privilege of driving on health grounds.

Sebastian Thrun

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