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Frances Mayes Quotes

What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

Frances Mayes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1940

Topics

People Me Wild Whose Most Tables

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

Angela Duckworth

Effort Direction Grit You Become

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

John Shelton Reed

People Think Voting You Know Ask

Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.

Russell Smith

Fashion Believe Never Classic Idea

You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

Louie Gohmert

Tired People Face You Seeing Get

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

Judith Butler

Walk Woman Man Speak Gender Say

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

Jose Mourinho

Me Champion Think Special Arrogant

If you want it, and you want to get it, then you've got to work hard for it, like Tupac was working hard for it.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Work Work Hard You Want Working Hard

I honestly just want to take a selfie sometimes.

Brooks Koepka

Sometimes Want Take Just Honestly

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Arthur Hailey

Blind Mimic

When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.

Ava DuVernay

Diversity Reality Talking Box Check

Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.

Sydney Pollack

Time Feel Want Without Something

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

Susan Orlean

Great New York Writing New Class