Ella Woodward Quotes
I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don't want to eat it.
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You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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Too clever is dumb.
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My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.
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Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
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In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
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It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
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Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'être.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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Even the sensible and the competent have been given tongues by le bon Dieu - and they do not always employ their tongues wisely.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.
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Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don't want to eat it.
