Dorothy Allison Quotes
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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My feeling about all films and all television is that it's an adventure. That's the way I have to look at it. Because you don't know what the climate of the circumstance is going to be. It could be very good. It could be very mediocre. It could be very bad. You don't know. But I've been doing it long enough now to know that it's an adventure. That's what it's all about.
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We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good things.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
