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Laura Esquivel Quotes

I like vibrant colors.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Colors Vibrant Like

I just fell into modeling.

Stephanie Corneliussen

Modeling Just Fell

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.

People Control Comedy Spirit Hard

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.

Money Me Important Want Big Star

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

Future Sad Friends Country Sometimes

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Women Knowledge Tree Healing Leaves

I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.

Land Nowhere Call Come Suburb

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Loved Buildings Abandoned Monsters

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

Men Man Me Singing World Real Man

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Clare Boothe Luce

Best Money Woman Protection Own Her

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

Brendan O'Carroll

Writing Comedy You Nobody Try

I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.

Life Government Saying You Know Get

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

Fight Need Equal Rights Equal Rights

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