M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Kansas City is just a great place. I love the fans.
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It is true, as the champions of the extremists say, that there can be no life without change, and that to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. It is no less true, however, that change may mean death and not life, and retrogression instead of development.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'
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Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
