Edith Durham Quotes
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you, that kinda changed my life.
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An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
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Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so that's a big selling point.
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
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I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.
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My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
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I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.
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A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
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I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.
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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.
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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
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It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.
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There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
