Tables Quotes - Page 30

• An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

  Jacques Prevert

  Sweet, Food, Night

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• Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Two, Apples, Pie

  "StarChefs" Interview, www.starchefs.com. October 2011.

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• In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.

  John C. Reilly

  New York, Play, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

  Jason Reitman

  Fun, Play, Directors

  "Jason Reitman’s ‘Live Read’ Series to Bring ‘The Apartment’ to New York This Month". artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. April 03, 2012.

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• Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

  Gerhard Richter

  Jealous, Inability, Inferiority

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

  Chris Rock

  Nice, Book, Menus

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• I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

  Rita Rudner

  Laughing, Want, Envelopes

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• Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Blow, Flying, Literature

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• I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Mean, Drawing

  "Maurice Sendak's dark visions delighted generations of children" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Kitchen, Together, Boards

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• On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

  Rob Sheffield

  Jobs, Zero, Idols

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• Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Running, Real

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• Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

  Simon Sinek

  Coffee, Space, Pressure

  "Blinded By Their Own Product: Starbucks Is Losing Its Buzz" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Turkeys, People

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• You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

  Joe Slovo

  Gun, Shoulders, Negotiating

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• Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

  Steven Spielberg

  Ideas, Cost, Television

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• You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Kitchen, Bottles, Commodity

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• The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.

  Alison Sweeney

  Dog, Mistake, Thinking

  ""Biggest Loser" host, dog Winky battle pet obesity". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. January 31, 2012.

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• When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

  Taylor Swift

  Wish, Lines, Yeah

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• Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.

  Michael Symon

  Kids, Emotional, Greek

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• When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

  Desmond Tutu

  Cups, Crash, Happens

  The New York Times, January 3, 1985.

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• In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

  Gabrielle Union

  Jobs, Taken, Careers

  "Gabrielle Union Revisits Rape, Reveals Her ‘Aha! Moment’ To O, The Oprah Magazine". O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2012.

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• Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

  Diana Vreeland

  Dinner, Poor, Darling

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• Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Waiting, Taught

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• I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

  Emma Watson

  School, Attention, Dinner

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