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.Mark Kurlansky
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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.
Gary Bettman -
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.
Karen Bender -
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel -
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
Ira Sachs -
As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
Adam Cohen -
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.
Mackenzie Astin
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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.
Walter Scott -
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.
W. H. Davies -
You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
Samuel Beckett -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Quintilian
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
Dana Boente -
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Francesco Guicciardini -
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Frances McDormand -
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
Karen O -
A secret is powerful when it is empty.
Umberto Eco
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I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.
Carol Loomis -
I like to think of myself as a pure rebel;
D-Nice Boogie Down Productions -
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Push your level of understanding so that you know your camera so well that you can frame within a fraction of an inch of the edge of the border, truly compose it how you want it and shoot it.
Jonathan Mannion -
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.
Mark Kurlansky