Annia Ciezadlo Quotes
I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
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I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
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It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. 2
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As my poor father used to sayIn 1863,Once people start on all this ArtGoodbye, moralitee!
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Flowers she would pick like guitar strings, for a real good whiff of how how life behind par seems.
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An artist must possess consummate technique in order to make us forget it.
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Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.
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It was a marriage made in heaven. The ads created a lot of buzz, and sales rose 24.7 percent in July.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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As fiction writers, we are entertainers.
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Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them. And then, there's the example of really chipping away at something to create something great. I don't believe that one is more reliable than the other.
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I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.
