Laurie Colwin Quotes
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
Eddie Redmayne
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
Nancy Gibbs
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
Kaskade
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
D. A. Pennebaker
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
Octavia Spencer
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
Fabiola Gianotti
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
Fareed Zakaria
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Vernon Howard
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
Venus Williams
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
W. Averell Harriman
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
J. J. Abrams
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
Karen Thompson Walker
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
Barbara Olson
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
Rachel Zoe
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
Pat Metheny
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
Kate Winslet
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I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.
Alison Goldfrapp
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
Yael Naim
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Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
Laurie Colwin