Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes
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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
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I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
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I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
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I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
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I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
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Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.
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We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.
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Who doesn't love a stuffed cherry tomato?
