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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Frisch (1927) as quoted in Divisia 1953, pp.24-25; Cited in: Bjerkholt, Olav. 'Ragnar Frisch and the foundation of the Econometric Society and Econometrica.' ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY MONOGRAPHS 31 (1998): 26-57.
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Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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I like all of McClure's pickles, but my personal favorites are the spicy ones.
