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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Nancy Mace has written a wonderful, timeless memoir of the great test to become the first female graduate of The Citadel. Her book is provocative, hilarious, illuminating, and true. It is also a love letter to her college and the best book about The Citadel ever written.
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The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.
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We are wiser than we know.
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The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world of the internet is and how it's a platform to project their greatest anger and frustrations. But it's also a place where people can wax lyrical and be effusive in their glowing fondness of something.
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"Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?” I said wryly.
