#elf

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself. ↗

— Melvin Van Peebles

#enjoy #film #friends #hope #i

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.' ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#chef #conform #cooking #create #dish

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

#because #being #bill #bill clinton #chance

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#country #finding-yourself #inspiring #journey #literature

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#exist #gas #gas chambers #i #myself

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself. ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#career #destroy #embarrass #failed #figured

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. ↗

— Bum Phillips

#lasts #only #self-discipline

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ↗

— William Penn

#before #body #companion #friend #hast

Design can change how you look at yourself. ↗

— Ty Pennington

#design #how #look #you #yourself

I like women who are self-sufficient. ↗

— Ty Pennington

#like #self-sufficient #who #women