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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Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
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Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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I never did standup before. It just looked like it was really hard, looked like there was like up days and down days - and I'm too emotionally unstable for that. I need to always be funny and always be loved.
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The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.
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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.
