Mrs Madrigal Quotes

#1. We dreamed together of the world remade.

Laini Taylor

#2. I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

Al Madrigal

#3. Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on."
The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly.
"What?"
"Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?

Armistead Maupin

#4. You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.

Al Madrigal

#5. You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.

Al Madrigal

#6. Walking through, Karou experienced it all in a rush of old and new experience that was like the convergence of two swift rivers: Madrigal's memory and Karou's marvel, merging at every step.

Laini Taylor

#7. There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.

Al Madrigal

#8. I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'

Al Madrigal

#9. Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Al Madrigal

#10. I was a corporate hatchet man, and it's impossible for me to turn that off. It's this curse when I walk into businesses: 'That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.'

Al Madrigal

#11. When my son was 3 years old - I'll never forget this - there was this homeless guy walking toward us, and my son looked at me, and he said, 'Who's your buddy?'

Al Madrigal

#12. It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

Beth Henley

#13. I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

Al Madrigal

#14. She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.

Armistead Maupin

#15. They have weaknesses, the same ones which every attack-minded team has. I'm sure that they will concede more than one at El Madrigal

Juan Roman Riquelme

#16. Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.

Laini Taylor

#17. I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.

Al Madrigal

#18. Open it at that sad madrigal that begins "Que m'importe que tu sois sage? Sois belle! et sois triste" and you will find yourself worshiping sorrow as you never worshiped joy.

Oscar Wilde

#19. Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-"
"Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?"
"You," he said. "And me.

Laini Taylor

#20. If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.

Al Madrigal

#21. I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

Al Madrigal

#22. Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Madrigal

#23. I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Al Madrigal

#24. I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to probe vitally important issues of the day, starting with whether I'm Hispanic or Latino.

Al Madrigal

#25. I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.

Al Madrigal

#26. My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

Al Madrigal

#27. The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

Al Madrigal

#28. A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking.

Al Madrigal

#29. My primary responsibility is to be funny.

Al Madrigal

#30. And now there was an acrimonious madrigal, with parts sung in all quarters of the car. Nearly everybody, seemingly, had an atrocity story of something Billy Pilgrim had done to him in his sleep. Everybody told Billy Pilgrim to keep the hell away.

Kurt Vonnegut

#31. Something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Laini Taylor

#32. That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?

Laini Taylor