“I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and ...” — Laura Esquivel Quote

“I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.”

“Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.”

“I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.”

“I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.”

“Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.”

“It's not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I've had into my own destiny over the years.”

“Ever since I was little, I looked up to Destiny's Child so much; I looked up to the Spice Girls and En Vogue. A piece of me wanted to be in a girl group.”

“I really believe in fate or destiny, and I believe the Jacksonville Jaguars were my destiny. I believe, when it's all said and done, it couldn't have worked out better for me... man, oh man, this was just perfect.”

“I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.”

“Destiny wasn't on the side of Rajiv Kapoor. Worse actors than him have succeeded in this industry.”

“The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.”