"I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less."

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Source : Sandra Cisneros (2007). “Vintage Cisneros”, p.81, Vintage

Sandra Cisneros

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“At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.”

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“A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.”
“Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.”
“Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.”
“It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.”
“When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “The Fiend”, p.218, Soho Press
“You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way”
“Let your clarity define you, in the end, we will only just remember how it feels.”

Source : Song: Little Wonders, 2007

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