Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.

Sandra Cisneros

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 20, 1954

Topics

LightMoneyMeSomeoneAwardYou

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

Michael Caine

WorkTryingBadGoLazyNothing

As an actor, you tend to draw on your human instincts and your background, what you've gone through as an individual.

Michael Ealy

YouActorHumanIndividualGone

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

John Pearson

LifeDeathWorldDieNothingBirth

Especially with someone like me, my family know how much I push myself to the absolute limit.

Tony Bellew

FamilyMyselfMePushSomeoneKnow

I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see is what you get.

Rob Mariano

PeopleMeThinkYouToo MuchKnow

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

Rory Kennedy

ThinkYouNeedOutGoingGet

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

Julia Glass

ExperienceMeChallengesComfort Zone

If I had a horse of my own that I loved and fed and knew me, it would be amazing.

Jason Momoa

AmazingMeLovedHorseMy OwnOwn

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

Bob Schaffer

LoveMoneySeeRestoreWouldFrench

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

Paul Watson

GrowthImmigrationPopulationLeading

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

Payne Stewart

MeControlThinkHelpWantBecome

I think Ric Flair has been tarnishing his legacy since 1990 - he has done more to tarnish his career then anything I could have said or did, then anybody could have said or did.

Shane Douglas

LegacyThinkCareerSaidDoneMore

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