Edmund de Waal Quotes
This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
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I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.
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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.
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I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
