Lidia Bastianich Quotes
I develop trust, and I think it's the most important to my growth. If my restaurants are always full and my books sell, it's this trust.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I want to play interesting women.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.
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I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.
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Another important aspect is that the masters taught us to move from a deeper source,not just from muscles and joints.
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There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
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I amused myself playing with the journalists.
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I develop trust, and I think it's the most important to my growth. If my restaurants are always full and my books sell, it's this trust.
