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Gioconda Belli Quotes

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 9, 1948

Topics

Change Romantic Change The World

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

Funny History Experience People Hard

Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.

People Better Person Better Person

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Robert Rodriguez

Myself Think Audience Core Just

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'

Teacher Me Voice You Know Never

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Beautiful Children Past Think Dark

A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance, and I just said yes. I didn't tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.

Dance Me Language Help Look Done

My mom is an incredibly direct person, and I like things to make sense.

Mom Person Things Sense Like Direct

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

Me Think Find Want Try Company

Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that's where I got my rapping chops up.

College Think Hobby Up Where Got

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

Good History Journalism Information

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.

Antonio Banderas

Thought Hollywood Latino Everything

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

Time Saying Political Career Right

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