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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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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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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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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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There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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I have a very open line of communication with both my children.
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What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.
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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 love Gershwin. I love musicals.
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Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
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I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.
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I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
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Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.
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The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.
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It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.
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Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.
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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 make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.
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Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
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