Lidia Bastianich Quotes
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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I love Chicago.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
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I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.
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I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.
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A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
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I feel I no longer fit in with these times.
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Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
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It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.
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There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it.
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I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.
