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 like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
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Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.
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That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.
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Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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Part of the power of home cooking is that everything tastes better when someone else makes it for you.
