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Voltaire Quotes

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Topics

God Eating Nothing More Pleasure

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

Work Me Think You Go Sometimes

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

Better Getting Better Now Songwriting

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

Life Live People Me My Life Own

As Asian-Americans, we just don't often get the chance to tell the story from a leading person's perspective. And so I took jobs where they came, and they were always in the ensemble, and if it required me to play multiple instruments I did that, and if it was as a puppeteer, I did that. That's just how I was cast; that's how I was employed.

Ruthie Ann Miles

Perspective Me Chance Story Play

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

Live Together Writing Night Saturday

It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.

Me Winning Much Oscar Meant

It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.

Time Step People Problem Trying Go

'Project Runway' made my name more high-profile. I've gotten to work with a lot of different celebrity clients that I never would have otherwise.

Work Name Clients Celebrity Never

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Life Music You Buildings Kind More

I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.

People I Can May Too Many People Too

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

William Shakespeare

Age Man Youth Endure Meat Cannot

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Work Time Food Face Year Egg

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