Lidia Bastianich Quotes
When we're filming, I sometimes look into the camera and wonder who's out there, who will be watching.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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To go back means defeat.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
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I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.
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When we're filming, I sometimes look into the camera and wonder who's out there, who will be watching.
