Juan Diego Quotes

#1. Juan Diego lived there, in the past - reliving, in his imagination, the losses that had marked him.

John Irving

#2. His childhood, and the people he'd encountered there - the ones who'd changed his life, or who'd been witnesses to what had happened to him at that crucial time - were what Juan Diego had instead of religion.

John Irving

#3. Don't ever die, Juan Diego had written to Brother Pepe from Iowa City. What Juan Diego meant was that HE would die if he lost Pepe.

John Irving

#4. And you wouldn't want to bring her home - at least not to entertain your guests or amuse the children. No, Juan Diego thought - you would want to keep her, all for yourself.

John Irving

#5. Flor and Juan Diego and Lupe were the Iowan's projects; Edward Bonshaw saw them through the eyes of a born reformer, but he did not love them less for looking upon them in this fashion.

John Irving

#6. There was a twofold awkwardness attached to Juan Diego's attempts to have sex with the life-size Guadalupe doll - better said, the awkwardness of Juan Diego's imagining he was having sex with the plastic virgin.

John Irving

#7. Lupe's language is just a little different," Juan Diego was saying. "I can understand it.

John Irving

#8. Many of Juan Diego's demons had been his childhood companions-he knew them so well, they were as familiar as friends.

John Irving

#9. Real life is too sloppy a model for good fiction, Juan Diego had said.

John Irving

#10. You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.

Katy Perry

#11. Every girl is beautiful if they have the ability to believe in themselves.

Paris Hilton

#12. If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

Stephen Covey

#13. Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

Juan Diego Solanas

#14. The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.

Ha-Joon Chang

#15. San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#16. I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#17. When the president during the campaign
said he was against nation building,
I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Al Franken

#18. Sometimes I just think of an image. Basically, I see an image in front of me. My eyes are open, but I visualize an image, very truthfully. It happened with all my movies the same way.

Juan Diego Solanas

#19. I don't know why I'm always surprised when vampires act as weird as ordinary humans. It's not like they gain the wisdom of the ages with the transformation.

Nalini Singh

#20. If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

Juan Diego Solanas

#21. The world is full of challenges, but with those come opportunity, and I'm an opportunist.

Homaro Cantu