Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) Quotes
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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I'm only a human being.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
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I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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I wish I had more time to write.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
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Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are
