Fergus Henderson Quotes
I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
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Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
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Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
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In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
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My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.
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I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
