Adam Gopnik Quotes
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.
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You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
