M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
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Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the key executives after the foundation of the company couldn't keep up with the technology innovation of the industry. They thought that Yahoo should become a media company.
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Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.
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A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
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In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
