Frances Mayes Quotes
I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.
Quotes to Explore
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Anne Elliot was the one Jane Austen character I didn't fall in love with. She seemed sad and defeated.
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We have such a good time working together. It makes such a difference going to work every day for 14 hours and being able to hang out and have a good time.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.
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I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.
