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“I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.”
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“It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.”
Source : Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin (1948). “The new science of Giambattista Vico”
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“I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.”
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“Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!" With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?”
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“Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.”
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“Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.”
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“When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, 'Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?' But I think it's cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable.”
Source : Interview with Alexandra Marshall, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 15, 2010. 
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“The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.”
