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I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me. ↗

— America Ferrera

#all day #american #angeles #bar #before

I'm the first one in line to go watch "Spider-Man," but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life. ↗

— America Ferrera

#definitely #feel #feel good #first #go

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like. ↗

— America Ferrera

#culture #image #impossible #issues #like

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option. ↗

— America Ferrera

#am #because #career #choice #even

What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'. ↗

— America Ferrera

#auditions #beautiful #commercial #curves #ever

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April. ↗

— America Ferrera

#after #also #american #americas #april

So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#along #always #ball #better #challenged

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#day #excited #films #finally #i

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#achievement #aspirations #broad #cannot #community

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#anything #complete #complete mystery #i #idea