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Russell Lynes Quotes

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1910 - September 14, 1991

Topics

Good Bad More Taste Good Taste Only

As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'

Jessica Williams

Time Woman People Me Opportunities

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.

Work Beautiful Sky Creative Speak

I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.

Better Want Kind Boring Would Maybe

I don't raise my daughter differently than her twin brother, to the point where she only wanted to wear his clothes - sweatpants, baggy T-shirts, and high-tops - for a year straight. She claims it's because she needs to be 'comfortable and functional,' and who can blame her? I would wear a tracksuit seven out of seven days if I could.

Amanda de Cadenet

Daughter Brother Blame Clothes Year

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Stephen Sondheim

Art Chaos Out Order Bring Attempt

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.

Home Time King Sweet World Pig

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

Jayne Mansfield

Myself See Read Dull Wants Subject

Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.

Better Now Hearing Things Going

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

Work People Me Energy Internet Box

I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.

Love Energy Rock Up Little Big

Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.

Life Simple Easy Always

Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.

David Thibodeau

Life Time Water Better Place Lived

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