Geoffrey Zakarian Quotes
Undercook swordfish, and you get rubber. Overcook it, and you lose the fat and succulence.
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We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.
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Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'
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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
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I'm really more of an executive.
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It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
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TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally.
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He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
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What sustains us in any competition are the moments of interiority when the competition vanishes; what sustains us in any struggle are the moments when we forget the struggle.
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I am 'too fiery' … yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.
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As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban.
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The love received is the love that is saved.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.
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Undercook swordfish, and you get rubber. Overcook it, and you lose the fat and succulence.
