Crescent Dragonwagon Quotes
I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
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I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.
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I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
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If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
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I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.
