Laura Esquivel Quotes

Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.

Laura Esquivel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: September 30, 1950

Topics

LifeWaterCookingFireTogether

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

ActingMoreHardAnythingFortitude

I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.

Trisha Yearwood

LoveCookbooksI LoveTonShelves

I started tennis around age 2.

Tracy Austin

AgeTennisStartedAround

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

Rod Carew

HospitalFeverAlmostEightMonths

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

Lois Capps

ValueResearchMoreStemAcknowledge

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

WisdomMenGenerationWiserCompass

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

Don Johnson

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I've always thought that guns are a cowardly tool in the hands of men and women trying to solve problems with each other. And cowardly in the hands of filmmakers. It's taken so lightly in films.

Derek Cianfrance

WomenMenProblemsThoughtHands

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

Donnie Yen

VisionLookingStoryYouLookWant

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

Debby Ryan

ActingWantMoreLongevityAnything

'Naked' propelled me into a whole other league. America started calling. I went over to Los Angeles and met all those people, and I started doing a few American films of various levels of quality.

David Thewlis

QualityPeopleMeAmericanDoing

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

William O'Neill

GreatSchoolWayHardUpState

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