"I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets."

-- Eva Zeisel

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“In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.”
“Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded on a special curve, because many academic historians identify with him as one of their own.”
“As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.”
“I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.”
“When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.”
“You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt.”
“The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers”
“I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.”

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