Smolinski Rosario Quotes

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist ... ~ Rosario Ferre

My fight isn't so simple, it has very deep roots, from long ago, from earlier generations. Life weighs on me with the weight of my family history, my genes drag along a race of sons of plenty and sons of bitches who with a blade of a machete cleared the pathways of life. They're still doing it. They ate with the machete, they worked, they shaved, killed, and settled differences with their wives with machete. Today the machete is a shotgun, a nine-millimeter, a chopper. The weapon has changed but not its use. The story has changed, too, has become terrifying. Once proud, we are now ashamed, without understanding how, why, and when it all happened. We don't know how long our history is, but we can feel its weight. ~ Jorge Franco

He got to know me, not with the minuteness with which I knew him, but with his spontaneous conclusions. He talked about everyone and defined them, but I had the privilege of being the only one in whom he discovered new facets, the only one to whom he addressed questions from the soul, the only one he examined and in whom he found what they never gave him, but he was frightened by the discovery. The two of us were filled with fear that night, the only night, when we again closed what we'd opened, as if we'd never seen it. ~ Jorge Franco

Or maybe I just wanted
to be wanted,
to be heard,
to be seen
by someone.

Anyone. ~ Juleah Del Rosario

I love watching a movie that is smart, that makes me think, that includes me as an audience member, and I especially love it when I know that the people that I'm working with also do that. ~ Rosario Dawson

I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated. ~ Rosario Dawson

Tomas led a young woman by the hand and walked up into the foothills. Millian, the miner from Rosario, had introduced her to the patron, already buying points for himself. He was no fool. And the girl, no fool either, lifted her skirts for Tomas as he knelt before her, licking his way up her thighs -brown and sweet as candy, at the same time, tart and salty, musky, silken and cold in the warm air, refreshing as the sorbet he licked in Culiacan back when he was a student. She was amazed that this bit of her body could the great master to his knees before her. She was perhaps the most beautiful girl on that whole plain, but he did not her name and felt no need to ask. He pressed his face to her underwear, redolent with the burning scent of her, and he pulled the cotton down, over the bright points of her hips , the shadowy curve of her belly, until the fog of dark hair came into his sight, soft in the moonlight, tickling his face as he bent down to her again. He pressed his lips on the mound of her, breathing her in, tasting her like a dog, as her skirts fell over his head and her fingers pulled his head tighter to her, her legs moving apart in the dark, her beauty falling around him, his greatest gift to him, this flavor, this smell, her scent. ~ Luis Alberto Urrea

As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. # PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence. ~ Rosario Dawson

I held up my ice-cream cone in the gesture of a toast. "Number thirteen: Eat ice cream in public."
About this one... I don't get it. What's the big deal about eating ice cream?"
Fat people aren't allowed to eat in public."
What are you talking about?" she said, a bit snobbily in my opinion. "I notice them eating all the time."
Exactly."
You lost me."
It's hard to enjoy the eating experience when you feel everyone's staring at you, thinking, No wonder she's such a fat cow. Look how she eats."
I don't think that!"
Sure. ~ Jill Smolinski

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.' ~ Rosario Dawson

As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes. ~ Rosario Dawson

In my family, I'm short. ~ Rosario Dawson

The sound is gone. There's nothing left but the insomniac throbbing of crickets. Crickets in the garden, the courtyard, the back courtyard. Close, domestic, identifiable. And those out in the country. Between all of them they raise, little by little, a wall that will keep out the thing that lies waiting for the tiniest crack of silence to steal through. The thing that is feared by all those who are sleepless, those who walk through the night, those who are lonely, children. That thing. The voice of the dead. ~ Rosario Castellanos

Best fucking speech I ever heard. ~ Jill Smolinski

When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to violence to the point where they're in stadiums still to this day watching people getting stoned to death. ~ Rosario Dawson

I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours. ~ Rosario Dawson

I am political in spite of myself. I don't want to do the things I know I have to do, don't want to expose myself to disapproval, to retribution, don't want to go to meetings and demonstrations, distribute leaflets, don't want to ask people for signatures, for money.

I don't do these things as naturally as I breathe, the way I imagine real political people do, real communists, real socialists and feminists, real radicals, real troublemakers, real champions of the people. I do them because I know I've got to, because I am convinced it's the only way to make changes, to stop abuses. I do them almost as a last resort. I do them because I've been putting off doing them, avoiding them for months, because finally the necessity has gripped me and overcome my reluctance, my desire for the warmth of my room, for my books, for my people, for the reassurance of my homely habits. ~ Rosario Morales

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own. ~ Rosario Dawson

I didn't even remember it because it kind of came up, and then a week later it said I broke up with him. ~ Rosario Dawson

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by ~ Rosario Dawson

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ~ Rosario Castellanos

It's so much easier to get high than how scary it must be to see who you actually are and take responsibility for it. Denial is an easy place to live in. ~ Rosario Dawson

I am honored to be both an active surrogate and a member of the RNC's Hispanic advisory council. The national effort to work seamlessly with our state parties has improved our landscape and chances with Latino voters, not just in San Diego but across the country. ~ Rosario Marin

All is possible if courage endures temptations of discourage. Believe,set your dream goal and go after it. Weakness is the worst to stain your heart and soul. Believe in you.. ~ Akkina Rosario Downing

It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever. ~ Rosario Dawson

Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less. ~ Rosario Ferre

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention. ~ Rosario Dawson

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot. ~ Rosario Ferre

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films. ~ Rosario Dawson

I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars. ~ Rosario Dawson

I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did. ~ Rosario Dawson

I write because I am poorly adjusted to reality. ("The Writer's Kitchen") ~ Rosario Ferre

When I see a woman who is all gaunt and emaciated, I don't think she's beautiful. She reminds me of a Chihuahua that's freezing and shaking. ~ Rosario Dawson

They kind of took it out of our hands. We're still able to deal with him on an emotional level. ~ Rosario Dawson

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them. ~ Rosario Ferre

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.' ~ Rosario Dawson

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it. ~ Rosario Dawson

People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't. ~ Rosario Dawson

People are living too much or too little, and I wondered if anyone out there is living the right amount. ~ Jill Smolinski

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral ... ~ Rosario Ferre

I am the daughter of myself. I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me. ~ Rosario Castellanos

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court. ~ Rosario Dawson

I'm a really smiley person, so I've just learned when I'm doing my own makeup, I have to make sure it's smile ready and not too heavy. As amazing as the Victoria Beckham pout is for photos, I just can't do it! ~ Rosario Dawson

Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any. ~ Rosario Ferre