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I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

Gloria Estefan

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Gloria Estefan
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 1
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Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan
Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo Garcia de Estefan
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Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
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And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!
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I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.
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I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.
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I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
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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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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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Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
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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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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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The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
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Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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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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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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We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.
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