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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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
