Debi Mazar Quotes

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• A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

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  Hero, People, Giving

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

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  Hero, Passion, Gun

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

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  Sacrifice, Decision, Sometimes

  "Debi Mazar’s History of New York". Interview with Zac Posen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2015.

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• For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.

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  Mean, Sick, People

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

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  Memories, Home, Heart

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• I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.

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  Thinking, Careers, Aggressive

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• I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

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  Fun, Hollywood, World

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• I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

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  New York, Children, Growing Up

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• With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.

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  Real, Important, Life Is

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• When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.

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  Fun, Effort, Design

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting.

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  Simple, Long, Important

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.

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  Jeans, Looks, Done

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• Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

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  New York, Actors, Great Things

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• When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

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  Mother, Vegetables, Neighbor

  "Debi Mazar and husband make an 'Extra Virgin' blend". Interview with Kristine M. Kierzek, archive.jsonline.com. April 1, 2014.

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• When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.

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  Kids, Years, House

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• I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

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  Drama, Three, Television

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• I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.

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  Cooking, Type, Come Up

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• I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

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  Thinking, Careers, Littles

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• I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

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  Girl, Nice, Turkeys

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.

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  Girl, Kids, Vintage

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• Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

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  Tired, Character, Makeup

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• I have lots of shoes, but I have to be comfortable. Lately, I've stolen my husband's big, ugly Uggs to wear around the kitchen. I want to have them on, then slide into a fabulous heel later. Truth is, I often forget the heel.

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  Husband, Shoes, Uggs

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• I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.

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  Legs, Littles, Pants

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• Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.

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  Home, Heart, People

  "'Extra Virgin’s' Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos on how they stay sweet". Interview with Holley Simmons, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

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  People, Priorities, Stronger

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