Otto Penzler Quotes
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
