All Quotes

"I am particular about craftmanship. I believe a garment should be as beautiful inside as it is outside."

"I love clean, structured, and refined pieces that you could almost wear inside out because of how well they're made. Every stitch, every seam, tells a story of care, pride, and passion."

"I think that my real age is 16, I’m just energetic and full of life."

"I am a big supporter of embracing who you are and staying authentic, because that's the one quality that separates you from the rest."

"Culture is a very important part of who we are, and it makes us great."

"I'm a sister and the aim here is not to break people or make them feel like they can't do anything."

"Also, there comes a point in life when you get tired of playing it safe. You sort of want to stretch yourself a bit and kind of surprise yourself. I love the element of surprising myself and not being too comfortable in the things that I do."

"I think this stems from our parents because they were never comfortable enough to talk to us about intimacy. But it’s something that should be handled with respect. These are the elements I thought about - to say ‘you know what, sex is not a bad thing. It’s what created all of us.’"

"That’s the beauty about acting - it allows you to forget about yourself and to wear this character."

"I do find that late 30’s and middle aged people seem to have more of a crisis as their set friends, behaviours, interests, job environment suddenly do not bring them the joy and satisfaction they once did; and then they start grappling with the reasons why, and often, like I mention in my book, one starts blaming and naming and shaming everything external for their lack of joy but it’s the inward things that need looking at."

"There are many patients who come to me with depression and anxiety. Often, I have to recommend that they fix their gut health first, because that is where the healing is rooted."

"Your diet plays into your overall health – mind, body and soul."

"Fame became a big part of my life in my early years but I didn’t want that to define me. I learned to be a person of worth aside from that."

"Acting became a vehicle for me to do the work I was meant to do, which is to share what I’ve been through."

"Our first appeal has always been for dialogue and peace. And the appeal to all parties involved—from the government to social and indigenous organizations and civil society as a whole—is understood as a mission at the service of these people."

"The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.”"

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand"

"Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out of each other’s lives, as we all must eventually leave this earth. Great artists know that shadow, work always against the dying light, but always knowing that the day brings new light and that the ocean which washes away all traces on the sand leaves us a new canvas with each wave"

"What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance."

"I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?"

"“friendship in marriage is its own thing: friendship in a cup of tea, or a glass of wine, or a cappuccino every Sunday morning. Friendship in buying undershirts and underpants. Friendship in picking up a prescription or rescuing the towed car. Friendship in waiting for the phone call after the mammogram. Friendship in toast buttered just so. Friendship in shoveling the snow. I am the one you want to tell. You are the one I want to tell"

"In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms"

"They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain"

"Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space"

"To live in memory and in dreams is a cruel comfort"

"It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV/AIDS. The numbers graft to poverty but they also graph to stresses known and invisible. How did we come here, after all? Not with upturned chins and bright eyes but rather in chains, across a chasm. But what did we do? We built a nation, and we built its art.”"

"For loss is our common denominator. None of us will escape it. None of us will outrun death. What do we do in the space between that is our lives? What is the quality and richness of our lives? How do we move through struggle and let community hold us when we have been laid low? This"

"Loss is not felt in the absence of love"

"Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly"

"Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly. In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.”"

"In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love."

"It happened; it is part of who we are; it is our beauty and our terror. We must be gleaners from what life has set before us."

"Mel Rodriguez as Bobby"

"Hannah Nordberg as Emily Sullivan"

"Alyvia Alyn Lind as Olivia Sullivan"

"Payton Lepinski as Molly Sullivan"

"Fernando Luján as Papi Montenegro"

"Cecilia Suárez as Magdalena Montenegro"

"Mariana Treviño as Sofia Montenegro"

"John Hannah as Colin"

"Swoosie Kurtz as Grace (Kate's mom)"

"Josh Segarra as Jason"

"Jesús Ochoa as Vito"

"Omar Chaparro as Burro"

"Adrian Uribe as Burrito"

"Javier Lacroix as Carlos, the cook"

"Édgar Vivar as Papi's Gastroenterologist"

"Garry Chalk as Dr. Fletcher"

"Darla Vandenbossche as Receptionist"

"Coming from a family that wasn't well off, I though certain things were out of reach and were only for specific people."