Bee Wilson Quotes
Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.Bee Wilson
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen -
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
Tamara Ecclestone -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
Zara Larsson -
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
Gail Sheehy
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
Viggo Mortensen -
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa -
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
Nate Diaz -
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
Zoe Saldana
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria -
Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
Umberto Eco -
There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
Beck -
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
J. C. Watts -
I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
Vicente del Bosque
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Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.
Brad Gilbert -
Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges it has confronted are any worse now, or, alas, even much different, from what they ever were.
Antonin Scalia -
My family traveled a lot. For a while we even lived in a trailer and traveled from campground to campground. If we got to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, it was the highlight of our whole year! But I don't miss having to share a bathroom with seven people or having powdered milk with my cereal. It was so nasty.
Alice Greczyn -
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.
Bee Wilson