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And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

Topics: Anywhere Border Carpentry Chances Course Cross Dishes Factories Gardens Go Homes Mexican Millions Much Pretty Restaurant Restaurants Shops States United United States Us Washed Will Work You

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There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

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I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

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I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

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I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

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If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

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One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

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So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

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Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Journalist

Born: May 27th, 1949

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