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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I was inspired by all of it. 'The Avengers,' 'Harry Palmer,' 'The Prisoner,' 'The Man from UNCLE,' 'In Like Flint.' Of course, there's a huge shadow of Bond - Bond is the monolith of spy movies - but it's not just about Bond; there were a lot of other things that influenced me.
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It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
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I think I'm lucky in life and not just in football. I was very fortunate to play for a great organization and a great team that was really good near the end of my career.
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The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
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Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator; yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been.
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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.
