Andre Aciman Quotes
There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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Everything is real on me.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.
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It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
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With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.
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I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.
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I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
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There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.
