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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.
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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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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I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
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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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[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
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When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].
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The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
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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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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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A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.
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My mom was definitely very strict with me.
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My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
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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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I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
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I have a very open line of communication with both my children.
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[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.
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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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[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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Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
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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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