Carrie Vaughn Quotes
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Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
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If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
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I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
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80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.
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I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.
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As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
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I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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The girl's mouth was chapped, tight and pinched, her skin dry. Mama would say she looked woebegone, but as Bird looked at her eyes, the word she thought of was desperate.
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It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.
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And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.
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I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
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No matter how long our politicians order people to sing songs of praise, no matter how many fireworks they launch into the heavens, and no matter how many foreign leaders they embrace, they cannot arouse a genuine mood of joy and celebration among the people.
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We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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"Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?” I said wryly.
