William H. Gass Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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Rumours are rumours. The Internet is going to report whatever they have to speculate on.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
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Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!
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The metamorphosis of people is so interesting. I guess that's why everybody loves before and afters, throwback Thursdays, and all that kind of thing.
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What else is soul but a listener?
