"The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Skills Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.”

Source : Alice Waters (2010). “The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution”, p.14, Clarkson Potter
“I talk alot about death so I should do it soon... Maybe under the cold breeze of a bluish moon”
“I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.”

Source : "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.
“Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.”
“If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other thing, quality comes with practice. If you are prolific, then you become a better writer because you are writing. The more you do anything the better at it you will become. So in a way, quantity does add to quality.”
“I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.”
“As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals.”
“I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.”

Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.

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