Samuel P. Huntington Quotes
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.
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I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
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I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is.
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When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
