Adam Gopnik Quotes
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.
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I don't really know what a cyclotron is but I am certainly very happy Canada has one!
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When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, 'Emo, don't go near the cellar door!' One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun..
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The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
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A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
