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Carolyn See Quotes

It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1934 - July 13, 2016

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First Recipe Manly Magazine Learned

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

Hope Energy Dark Circumstances Very

I wrote a lot of 'A Time to Kill' at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., hiding in little committee rooms, killing time waiting for legislation to come to the floor.

Time Waiting Committee Little Floor

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

Lie Smart Enough Flaws More Human

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

People Think Potential America Class

The USDA is tasked with managing and promoting agriculture - including the well-funded animal agriculture industry - so it's pulled into a tug-of-war every time the dietary guidelines are re-evaluated.

Time Animal Agriculture Industry

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.

Michael Fassbender

Questions Place Want Leaving Asking

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

Stephen Sondheim

Work People Me Opinion Stage Seen

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.

Stanley Hauerwas

God Victory Defeat Assume Gospel

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

Stephanie Laurens

Work Down More Through Sit Half

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

Rosanna Arquette

Business Music Become Big

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

Life Questions Everyday Everyday Life

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

Woman Man Gender You Born Idea

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