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The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

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
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The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.
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I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.
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I was a straight-A student, baby!
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It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.
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I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
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The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- Who's Sorry Now?] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].
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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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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
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Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
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I'm happy and I have a great life.
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We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.
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There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.
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If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
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I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.
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You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.
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This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.
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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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[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.
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