C.C. Alma Quotes

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it”

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.

Settle for nothing less than the object of your desire.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

I, woman, give birth: and this time to myself.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause.

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.

Sometimes only pain can obliterate pain.

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

I woman give birth: and this time to myself.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

There are times when looking on the bright side takes a lot ot work. I'm taking a break from it tonight. I'll be back at it tomorrow.

It's like somebody stuffed him in a barrel full of moonshine-proof cluelessness and then left him there to get pickled in it while it fermented into malice.