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.
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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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Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.
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As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.
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I'm an excuse for medical experiments and art theory. You must get me out of here and out of the hospital.
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Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.
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Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.
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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.
