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The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.
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The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.
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What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle.
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I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of the spirit world. Thank you for allowing me to speak about the spiritual, because I can't talk about my life or writing without mentioning that.
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Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.
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