#pie

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#haiti #occupied #states #united #united states

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#any #because #between #did #i

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#behind #between #child #denies #educational

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#ever #i #intricate #piece #squirrel

The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off. That means beignets and crayfish bisque and jambalaya, it means shrimp remoulade, pecan pie, and red beans with rice, it means elegant pompano au papillote, funky file z'herbes, and raw oysters by the dozen, it means grillades for breakfast, a po' boy with chowchow at bedtime, and tubs of gumbo in between. It is not unusual for a visitor to the city to gain fifteen pounds in a week--yet the alternative is a whole lot worse. If you don't eat day and night, if you don't constantly funnel the indigenous flavors into your bloodstream, then the mystery beast will go right on humping you, and you will feel its sordid presence rubbing against you long after you have left town. In fact, like any sex offender, it can leave permanent psychological scars. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#crayfish #food #gumbo #jambalaya #new-orleans

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence. ↗

— Daniel Dae Kim

#character #create #film #full #great

When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us. ↗

— Ben E. King

#contract #dollars #five #hundred #i

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#big family #bunch #different #family #five

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it. ↗

— Luke Kirby

#actual #back #gratifying #piece #really

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#different #doing #everything #faces #get