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• The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

  

  Colin Chapman
  • Home
  • Marriage
  • Secret

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Home
  • Suffering
  • Ability

• Some say, why will people pay for cinema when they can watch cheaper DVDs at home? But I say, everyone has a kitchen at home, yet there are still many restaurants.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • People
  • Why
  • Kitchen

• How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • World
  • Trying
  • Names

• I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

  

  Philip Reeve
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Weird

• The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • People
  • Long
  • She

• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • School
  • Reality

• People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

  

  Dagobert D. Runes
  • People
  • Funny
  • Travel

• I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.

  

  Demian Bichir
  • Together
  • Parents
  • Girlfriend

• I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Environment
  • Positive
  • Darkness

• I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Past
  • Question
  • Son

• If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don't know them, they want me home by 9 P.M. If I have work, then I don't have a deadline. I don't argue with them. That's how I have been raised, and I'm happy with it.

  

  Tina Desai
  • Work
  • School
  • Friends

• If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

  

  James Reston
  • Home

• For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • House
  • Duty
  • Active

• You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Art
  • Home
  • Universe

• The support from back home has been more than I ever expected. They always knew me as the lacrosse player or the girl playing field hockey. Now they're seeing me on national TV, and they've been so supportive.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Girl
  • Support
  • Player

• When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Time
  • English
  • Organization

• I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Hand
  • Always
  • Moment

• When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.

  

  Beji Caid Essebsi
  • Work
  • Country
  • Home

• I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Home
  • Picture

• I love New York for being New York. I love L.A. for being L.A. But when it comes home, I'm a Midwest, South type of dude. I like open roads, I like to drive, and it may not be as fast, but it's definitely a place where you get to appreciate a lot more. Not saying that you don't up here, but that's not what I'm accustomed to.

  

  Nelly
  • Up
  • May
  • Appreciate

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Strong
  • Better
  • Sick

• Food was a big part of our family gatherings, but it was usually pasta. We didn't eat that well. Everything was home-made but not much veg or fruit.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Family
  • Home
  • Food

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