Alex Witchel Quotes
Part of the power of home cooking is that everything tastes better when someone else makes it for you.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it!
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Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.
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Part of the power of home cooking is that everything tastes better when someone else makes it for you.
