Bee Wilson Quotes
I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.
Quotes to Explore
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
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I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
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I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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I write a world where everyone is partly right.
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If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
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I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good actor. What's his name again?' I liked being at that place.
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Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?
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To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a 'root' issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue.
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I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.
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I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.
