Karen Elson Quotes
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
J. August Richards -
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln -
Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
R. Lee Ermey -
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
Oren Peli -
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Harold Brodkey
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
Waris Ahluwalia -
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
Natalie du Toit -
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis -
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis -
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
Lakshmi Mittal -
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
Galen Rowell
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
Larry Wall -
What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
Major Owens -
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. Forster -
My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
M.I.A. -
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
Yul Vazquez -
As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
Ibrahim Hooper
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson -
When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
Ian Mckellen -
If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.
Hailey Gates -
Dad always encouraged my singing, so when 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' was a hit in the States, I flew my parents to New York first-class to see me, put them up at the Waldorf Astoria, then they sailed home on the QE2.
Pauline Matthews -
I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
Karen Elson