Meat And Potatoes Quotes

• To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Drama, Humor

  "The Guardian profile: Woody Allen" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2004.

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• My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Father, Men, Meat

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• I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

  Stanley Donen

  Thinking, Meat, Directors

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• We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex in the film [Young Adam] - which there clearly had to be because sex is the meat and potatoes of the thing - it had to be varied for the audience, because it's important to keep the audience living in it.

  Tilda Swinton

  Sex, Important, Levels

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• When I was younger I was strictly meat-and-potatoes and I just wouldn't try things. As I have gotten older, I'm much more adventurous but still not like whoever that dude is on whatever show it is who just goes around and eats bugs everywhere.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Trying, Meat, Potatoes

  "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.

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• You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.

  Feist

  Guitar, Perfection, Simplicity

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Who I Am, Style

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Navy, Meat, Groups

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• I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Running, Mean, Cat

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• Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.

  Frank O'Hara

  Mother, Kids, Giving

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• Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff - that's colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can't figure out why they can't get dressed.

  Michael Kors

  Clothes, Shining, Meat

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• I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Believe, Cynical, Acting

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• Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Breakfast Food, Eggs

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