Nancy Mitford Quotes
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
Nancy Mitford
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
Sally Phillips
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
Indra Nooyi
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I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
Victoria Osteen
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Photographing a cake can be art.
Irving Penn
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My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.
Nicki Minaj
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
Alexandre Dumas
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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.
Shane Carruth
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Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
Nancy Mitford
