Buddy Valastro Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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I've always liked SyFy.
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Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.
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I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.
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I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
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My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
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When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.
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There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
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I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.
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I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.
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I get along with everybody.
