When I was a little girl, there was no Variety Latino. When I was a little girl, there was no nothing. There were very few roles for people like myself. - Rita Moreno

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Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it. ― Langston Hughes

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Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books-- where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

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What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

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It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses. - Rita Moreno

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The prisoner imagines freedom to be more wonderful than it is.

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Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life. – Lisa Weed

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture. - Tatum O'Neal

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