Cristina Henriquez Quotes

I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow.

Cristina Henriquez

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I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.

John Grant

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I had a lot of friends be kind of standoffish after I became a Christian.

Andy Mineo

Be KindChristianFriendsKindAfter

While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images.

John Van Hamersveld

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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

John Updike

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I wanted to be a jazz musician.

Ron Cephas Jones

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I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.

Ruby Dee

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I never went out looking for glory.

Don Rickles

LookingGloryNeverOut

Relationships are everything; a lot of people say it's who you know and who knows you. I believe it's all about who is willing to step up and say they know you. Who's willing to put their name on the line for you.

Diamond Dallas Page

StepPeopleBelieveNameYouKnow

You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

Dean Jones

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When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortless grace. Gratitude and humility rise up spontaneously.

Debbie Ford

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I think it's important to take chances.

David Sedaris

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I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

Bruce Dickinson

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