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Adam Gopnik Quotes

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

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Time Now Eat Years Protein Cook

As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.

Character Decisions You Find Why

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.

Work Job Feel Down Guilty Know

'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.

John Cameron Mitchell

Thinking Born Piece Theater

It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.

Coaching Easy Need China Get Some

My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.

Family Mother Community Job Sister

The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Light Action Stand Literature Hide

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

Community Thought Behavior Gay Task

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

Mother Girl Time Shopping Loved She

I wanted to clearly define my language: a timeless shoe with a little twist.

Language Shoe Clearly Little Twist

The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.

Christoph Waltz

Art Artist True Myth Bohemian Been

When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure.

Age Free Saying You Down Say

My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.

Name Park Original Different Totally

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