Dana Goodyear Quotes (22 quotes)

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„Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.“
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„I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.“
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„Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.“
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„Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.“
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„Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.“
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„There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.“
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„My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.“
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„Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.“
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„Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.“
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„I'm a total foodie.“
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„I was terrified of taking the G.R.E.“
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„I love trying new restaurants.“
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„I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.“
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„For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.“
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„Food is a lens for culture.“
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„I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.“
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„Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.“
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„If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.“
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„I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.“
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„The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.“
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Dana Goodyear
Author born: November 30, 1975
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Journalist

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