Laura Esquivel Quotes

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

Laura Esquivel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.

Jimmy Swaggart

LifeManMy LifeNeverSeenMarry

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

John Garamendi

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I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

John Travolta

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I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

Spike Lee

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Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers.

Sue Hubbell

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Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.

Steven Levitan

FamilyPeopleStrongWeekNobody

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

Michelle Gomez

GoKnowAlwaysFilmGoingStraight

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

Luca Guadagnino

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Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

Jay Mohr

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The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

Demetri Martin

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I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

Claire Messud

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