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At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#chaos #cook #gone #got #home

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. ↗

— Robert Browning

#cram #day #his #hold #hurry

As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read. ↗

— Todd Burpo

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You must look into people as well as at them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#look #must #people #them #well

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#american citizen #american citizens #citizen #citizens #i

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#book #breathing #character #her #i

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book. ↗

— Richard McKenna

#die #got #just #plain #you

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#came #closely #decisions #did #focus

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#architecture #capital #car #developed #extended

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

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