Keith Floyd Quotes
A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
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Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
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Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
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Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
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I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
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What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.
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In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, "Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . ."
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.
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A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.
