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- Pastry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The invention of gas and electric heaters has not meant the end of fireplaces. Printing did not end penmanship, television did not kill radio, movies did not kill theatre, and home videos did not kill movie theaters, although all these things were falsely predicted.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes politically important and culturally important. That whole process is very interesting to me. And salt seemed to me the best example of that, partly because it's universal.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things that become important to economies become ritualized and become deified. Because I'm Jewish, I always thought it was interesting that in Judaism, salt seals a bargain, particularly the covenant with God. Some people, when they bless bread, they dip it in salt. Same thing exists in Islam.
- Playwright
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do much research on the Internet.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because the Grand Banks had closed.
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- Nov 07, 2020