Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
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I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
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I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.
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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Over the years I have had the most contact with Lee Kuan Yew, most recently in 2006, and have always found him impressive, even though we do not always see eye to eye. I met him first when he was George Shultz's guest at the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Bohemian Grove, a male only bonding retreat among the redwoods of California.
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I like all of McClure's pickles, but my personal favorites are the spicy ones.
