Jane Gardam Quotes
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My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
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The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
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All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.
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I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.
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Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
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It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.
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On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.
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Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.
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I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping.
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The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
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I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
