Ina Garten Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I have fabulous children.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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I'm not radical.
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
