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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We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.
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Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.
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I think that music has an endless life.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.
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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.
