Mae West Quotes
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
