Alice Waters Quotes
I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.
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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things happen, they almost seem to happen on a Shakespearian stage with the audience so close they can become actors too. This is partly what Joseph Brodsky meant when he wrote that small countries have big politics.
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I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.
