Carrie Keagan Quotes
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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The devil made me do it.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.
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I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.
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A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
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We were like a moth right next to the flame. It's like, do any more and you go down. We were so tired. One final lap, and then have a rest.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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Hello you little charmers... We're The Smiths...
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I obey nature, I never presume to command her. The first principal in art is to copy what one sees.
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One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
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It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead. We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.
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Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.
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I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.
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I'm a big nerd. I geek out when I walk into Comic-Cons. This is like my heaven.
