"I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas."

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Source : "Michael Mina: Las Vegas Dining Isn’t About the 99-Cent Buffet Anymore". Interview with Anneli Rufus, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

Michael Mina

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“When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.”

Source : Anne Bishop (2000). “Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3”, p.42, Penguin
“Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.”
“Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.”

Source : John Osborne (2013). “John Osborne Plays 1: Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu”, p.128, Faber & Faber
“If you want to become humble, the first thing you have to admit is that you are proud.”
“Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.”
“I don't resent anything.”
“Many novelists say, "I'm not a political novelist" - myself included. That's a standard, even a default position. Whereas that divide between art and politics simply isn't possible in many countries. In Hungary, you couldn't be a fiction writer and then, when asked about politics, put your hands up in the air and say "But I'm not a political novelist." If you're a Chinese novelist, a novelist in a country where censorship is such an issue, how do you claim that politics has nothing to do with your writing? It's in your writing, it's shaping your words.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.”

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