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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

Around Corner Distinctive Footsteps
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Astonishment Been Centuries Did
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
God Writes Gospel Not
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

After Because Fact Hundred
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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Afraid That Schools Prove
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Cannot Her Include Leads
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Forgiveness is God's command.

Forgiveness God's Command Is
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Let The Wife Make
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

Energy Live Lot More
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My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.

Culture Forward Game Inspire
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Power Impunity Abuse Fear
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It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Giving Connect World Divine
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A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Memoir Version Perspective Omit
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Heart Drives Characters Passionate
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Ancient times World Patriarchal Catholic
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Feminism Dated Privileged Daughter
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Women Working together Informed Educated
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

World Preserved Quality Enriched
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Real change Feminine Energy Management
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Women Education Work Income
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I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

Traveled World Amazes Communicate
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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
Uneventful Safe life Prefer Adventurous
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Roots Landscape Country People
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

Tend Similarities Differences
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Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Being Bewildered Carry Heavy
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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Fact Writer Experience Root
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Cents Dollars Fifty Hollywood
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I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.
Living Mine Chile Belong
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Always Experience Fame Fickle
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In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Conflict War Poverty Women
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Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

Today's Girls Tomorrow's Leaders
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
World Better Place Grandchildren
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I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Destroy Nuclear Cataclysm Capacity
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I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Definitely Enjoy Very Woman
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Convey Story Particular Idea
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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Ability Apology Complain Go
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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Argue Cry Else Future
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I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.
Every morning Early Sky Red
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Give Experience Knowledge Talent
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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Forever Least Leave People
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

Change Story Colour Create
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

Happier Love Adore Husband
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I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

Get Got Great My Own
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I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.

About Change Forward Goes
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I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.
Always Heart Made Music
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Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

Area Around Career Detroit
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Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

About Know Like Made
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As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Entrepreneur Investor Artist Influencer
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I still believe I have a lot of liberal thoughts, but I also believe when you work hard, you shouldn't be penalized and pay more because you work hard.

Also Because Believe Hard
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