Creuzot Gumbo Quotes & Sayings

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish. — James Gray

Performing is the hardest thing. Even though I've done it for so many years, it's still exposing yourself. You suddenly become extremely vulnerable when you're on camera. You're filmed and you're being observed. It's a bit of a violation each time. — Julie Delpy

Absence of that knowledge has rendered us a nation of wary label-readers, oddly uneasy in our obligate relationship with the things we eat ... Our words for unhealthy contamination
"soiled" or "dirty"
suggest that if we really knew the number-one ingredient of a garden, we'd all head straight into therapy. I used to take my children's friends out to the garden to warm them up to the idea of eating vegetables, but this strategy sometimes backfired: they'd back away slowly saying, "Oh man, those things touched dirt!" Adults do the same by pretending it all comes from the clean, well-lighted grocery store. We're like petulant teenagers rejecting our mother. We know we came out of her, but ee-ew. — Barbara Kingsolver

Jesus came not to condemn, but to reclaim. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

They curtsied and giggled. — Kiera Cass

Trial by fire.' Roland whistled, patting Luce on the back. 'Show no fear. — Lauren Kate

Try not to let life get in the way, of what's important — Joanne Singleton

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. — Kingsley Amis

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways. — Dalai Lama XIV

The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He never was born and has never died - As he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever shall be! — Florence Scovel Shinn

I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story. — Yann Martel

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition. — Kelly Cutrone

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old? — John Updike

We can't keep running from past mistakes...At some point, we need to accept what is, what was done, and move on. — Shelley Hrdlitschka

Never underestimate your fans; they'll tell you exactly what they like. — Aaron Tippin