I try a different cookie recipe every time I bake.
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again
You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
I think that I had a very clear vision when I started writing cookbooks what I wanted it to be, and that you would open the book, that you would look at the photograph and go, that looks delicious. And then you would look at the recipe and say, I can actually make that and I can make it with ingredients I can find in the grocery store.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot.
The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Americans or the Hollywood movies with a commercial recipe, I'd never have gotten to Hollywood. Although, it was not my goal in any way, and I never thought there was any connection between Monsieur Lazhar and the Oscars.
If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes but by no means always find the way to do it.
Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success
If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.
Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.
Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.
It's always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
