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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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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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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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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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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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
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We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.
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The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.
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I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.
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Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know now that when I die, I will live on. That which is important will live on. This is my Legacy; and by the grace of the gods, I am not alone.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
