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• I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite sure what the magic recipe is, other than he just knows how to entertain an audience, and he knows when to be gooey and sweet, and when to be provocative and naughty.

  Sutton Foster

  Sweet, Stars, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try.

  Karen Walker

  Book, Home, Trying

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• Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

  Chad Harbach

  Notebook, Running, Block

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• About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

  Steve Yegge

  Ideas, Squares, Design

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• If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.

  Harriet Lerner

  Waiting, Firsts, Want

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Oct 23, 2016

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• If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Use, Today, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2865, Delphi Classics

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• Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

  Matt Ridley

  Dna, Four, Letters

  Matt Ridley (2012). “The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.

  Ruben Papian

  Self, Pounds, Needs

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.26

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• Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

  Anne Sexton

  Body, Hospitals

  Anne Sexton, “August 17th”

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• In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Sleep, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9406, Delphi Classics

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• Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

  Ani DiFranco

  Pain, Future, Rain

  Song: The True Story Of What Was, Album: Educated Guess, 2004

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• The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Creativity, Play, People

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• My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe.

  Susan Lucci

  Grandmother, Cake, Apples

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• The recipe for creating anything is really quite simple. Take good or bad feelings (meaning positive or negative vibrations), bake with varying degrees of emotion to increase magnetism, and here comes what we've attracted, like it or not. What we have focused on, and how we have vibrated about it, is what we have gotten... from birth.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Spiritual, Simple, Creating

  Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.44, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.

  Kristen Bell

  Reading, Figures, Embarrassed

  "Kristen Bell: Why Dax Shepard and I are in couples therapy". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2015.

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• There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

  Delia Smith

  Art, Games, People

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• I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

  Eva Longoria

  Passion, Together, Instinct

  "Eva Longoria's One Cooking Tip for Men (Also: Pizza)". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

  Danny Pino

  Dream, Grandmother, Black

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• There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Simple, Men, Feelings

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• These simple to prepare recipes should inspire anyone who wants to honor their body-God’s Temple-and feed their family from a biblical perspective.

  Jordan Rubin

  Biblical, Simple, Perspective

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• Café Gratitude offers an experience that expands what is possible for all people–a great recipe for business. I've watched Café Gratitude grow and have experienced both the flavors of their food and their commitment to providing a sacred experience for their customers.

  Chip Conley

  Gratitude, Commitment, People

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• At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

  Bernie Sanders

  Office, Mail, Information

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

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• Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.

  Martha Stewart

  Writing, Vogue Magazine, Editors

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• For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.

  C.P. Snow

  Fall, Eye, Science

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Search”, p.30, House of Stratus

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• Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

  Kent Conrad

  Agreement, Sugar, Unnecessary

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