Charlie Trotter Quotes
I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
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I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw.
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As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.
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On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.
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I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use.
