Alice Waters Quotes
I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him.
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I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
