Nora Raleigh Baskin Quotes
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.
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They in their desire for health commit themselves to physicians, but these people show no willingness to cast off the soul-sickness of their untrained grossness by resorting to wise men....
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Know how to live with the time that is given you.
