Bill Buford Quotes
The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
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As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
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The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.
