Quote by Mario Batali
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short st

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. – Mario Batali

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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. – Mario Batali

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Family
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We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day. – Mario Batali

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Food
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When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and theres something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees. – Mario Batali

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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smiths autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape. – Ellie Goulding

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Poetry

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. – Plato

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Poetry

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. – Karl Shapiro

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Poetry

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One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. – A. Bronson Alcott, “Books,” June 1869

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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. – Paul Cezanne

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The thing thats protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits. – M. Night Shyamalan

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