"Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told."

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Source : Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.44, Macmillan

Celia Rivenbark

#Holiday Quotes #Two Quotes #Baking Quotes

“No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.”
“My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped for about five years, or ten years, he says. Then all of a sudden he started playing again, and we all got interested. We started having people like CiarÃ¡n Tourish coming up to the house, and Dinny McLaughlin, who taught CiarÃ¡n, and who taught myself as well. And it just grew from that”
“If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.”
“I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.”
“I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules.”
“When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.”
“It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.”

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