"I got into cooking out of self-defense."

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Source : "Mark Bittman’s answers to our food questions". Q&As, blog.seattlepi.com. January 10, 2009.

Mark Bittman

#Self Quotes #Cooking Quotes #Defense Quotes

“I can fully understand [that] artists want to be able to pay their bills. As a fan of art, and art as a way to shift dialogue and address cultural issues, there's a part of me that's really, really saddened by that and can't really relate to it.”
“When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.”
“I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my motherâ€¦ It was my fatherâ€¦ It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.”
“A devotional book, which takes a Scripture text, and so opens it for us in the morning - that all day long it helps us to live, becoming a true lamp to our feet, and a staff to lean upon when the way is rough - is the very best devotional help we can possibly have. What we need in a devotional book which will bless our lives - is the application of the great teachings of Scripture - to common, daily, practical life.”
“And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like...I don't know, it would feel like home.”
“Endure the present, and watch for better things.”
“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom”

Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.
“I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.”

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