V. S. Naipaul Quotes
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.V. S. Naipaul
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
Dambisa Moyo -
I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.
Carine Roitfeld -
There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
Fionn Whitehead -
It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
Carli Lloyd
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
Candice Swanepoel -
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
Harriet Tubman -
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
Barbra Streisand -
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Randall Jarrell -
If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
Waris Ahluwalia -
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
Mamie Van Doren -
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
Hanya Yanagihara -
NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
Rachael Ray -
I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
Olivia Colman -
My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
Yoko Ono -
What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
Major Owens
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Indira Gandhi -
In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
Wanda Sykes -
You must always do what you feel is right.
Vidal Sassoon -
I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
Gabby Douglas -
I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.
Lisa Kudrow -
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul