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Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

Gloria Estefan

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Gloria Estefan
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 1
Actor
Film Actor
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Havana
Cuba
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan
Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo Garcia de Estefan
Rewarding
Motherhood
Inspiring
Difficult

More quotes by Gloria Estefan

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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
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[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.
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I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.
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When I went to do Carson that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. Conga hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case.
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My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha'ts my prime objective on this planet.
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I'm happy and I have a great life.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].
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Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
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I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
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I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!
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I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
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The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.
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The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.
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I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].
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More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.
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[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
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