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 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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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski -
Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.
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I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
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Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan model' - with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries - or the 'American model' of largely unfettered markets.
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I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.
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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.
