George Ellwanger Quotes
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
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Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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It's important to win with style.
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I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.
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'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
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Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.
