Ernest Gaines Quotes
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I'm trying my best.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's just say shirts that were once button-able are no longer. I'm constantly being roasted by my wife.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.
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'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
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I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.
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The living need charity more than the dead.
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A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy.
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I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or make any sudden movements, I shall die. And that'll show you." Seb shrugged in return, hiding how pleased he was pretty badly. "Fair enough.
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Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.
