Ina Garten Quotes
The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.
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The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
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In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
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It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
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I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.
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The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.
