Vincente Minnelli Quotes
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I get homesick.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.
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I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50.
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It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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Swag is something that I've had for a long time.
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The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
