Candice Olson Quotes
When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
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What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?
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The walls of people hardly affected me. You closed your mind to such things.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?
