"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."

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Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.127, Courier Corporation

Mary Antin

#Father Quotes #Cooking Quotes #Tin Quotes

“Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.”
“No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'”
“There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.”
“Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today,”
“I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not”
“I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something that I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do.”

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