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Hector Tobar Quotes

The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.

Hector Tobar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1963

Topics

Art Influence Think Powerful Cinema

I think maybe the only time I think of being a woman... is being on the road and making sure my musicians are fed and they sleep. 'Are you OK? Do you need some water? Are you hungry? Can I get you a cookie?' I'm not sure all the men bandleaders do that.

Anat Cohen

Time Water Men Woman Sleep Road

On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

Andre Leon Talley

Morning Hotel Christian Appointment

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

Mel Carnahan

Health Quality Training Child Care

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Ann Brashares

Life Live Book Isolation You Beyond

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

Jeff Bewkes

Journalism Television Up Where Just

You better be on the gas every day.

Robby Gordon

Day Better You Every Day Gas Every

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

Marvin Hagler

Time Fire Feel Back Stop Know

When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Michelle Obama

Work Mother Women Yourself I Am Me

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Mohsin Hamid

Create Human Head Human Being Take

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

Julia Holter

Home My Own Write Final Own Very

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Little Richard

Education Success Day Me Poverty

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

Jason Isbell

Work Story Think Better Enough Try