Tanya Saracho Quotes

When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens.

Tanya Saracho

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TogetherYouHandleGetHappensOur

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

Joanne Harris

WorkMotherMeYouWantUp

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

Joe Torre

GoodGood TimesAppreciateYouBad

I saw people, and I can't name them of course, that maybe were skeptical at first that were really sold on Donald Trump.

John Fleming

PeopleNameDonald TrumpFirstSaw

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Andrew Pyper

WritingStand UpStandKindWillUp

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

John Higgins

PurposeSupportPeopleMeTable

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

Maya Angelou

TimeCatsLionPeopleThinkYou

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Mary Stuart Masterson

LoveGoodFatherChildDinnerStory

I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.

Mitchell Zuckoff

WarMeWorldStoryNewChicago

I feel the most beautiful when I'm the most relaxed - for example, after a productive day of work or during a comfortable, rested afternoon. But I also feel great when I reunite with friends after a long time.

Liu Wen

WorkBeautifulGreatTimeDayFeel

I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it.

Joshua Oppenheimer

CommunityLostTalkScaredRelatives

I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man.

Art Garfunkel

ManAlwaysDifferentEccentric

We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.

Arvind Gupta

LifeWaterFoodWarEndLong

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