Mark Kurlansky Quotes
Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.
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The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
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We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.
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For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
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Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.
