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“When we crave the touch and the feel of an unfeigned world, we must not waver and put our quest on the back burner, but scratch anxiously the shining shell of a fair-weather world, find out how to discover real values; and foster a candid quality of our desire ("Absence of Desire" )”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie

“When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.”

People Kind Loses Focus Back Burner

Author:Vince Gill

“Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.”

May Brain Manage Cooks Back Burner

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I prefer to just jump into something instead of put it on the back burner, and I suppose that's how I deal with most challenging things. I'd rather just attack it head-on.”

Challenges Deals Back Burner

Author:Kate Bosworth

“Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.”

Knows Play Might Individual Focused Back Burner

Author:Young Jeezy

“Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.”

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Author:Gina Barreca

“I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.”

People Want Children Care Back Burner

Author:Richard Simmons

“When you're working and you're busy and you're successful, no matter what, something suffers, whether it's your relationship with your mother, your relationship with your whole family. Certain things suffer and take the back burner, not because they're on the back burner in your heart but because the world just moves so quickly. A lot of people, when they're chasing their dreams, they have to leave people they love.”

People World Heart Matter Whole Dream Moving Mother Certain Suffering Successful No Matter What Busy Our Relationship Chasing Whole Family Back Burner

Author:Nicki Minaj

“My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.”

Years Ideas Shows Performances Back Burner

Author:Cristela Alonzo

“Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.”

Hot Allowing Pot Back Burner

Book:Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

Source: Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

“My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want I Can Law Political Careers Degrees Work Out Popularity Political Science Back Burner

Author:Vinny Guadagnino

“I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.”

May Novel Busy Kitchen Chef Alas Freezer Back Burner

Author:Theodore White

“I think people felt like they did everything they had been told they should do to fix the problem, and it still wasn't fixed. Then you have these other parts of Sudan, [which] in actual fact have been left on the back burner for way too long, so there was this scramble, probably a year ago now, to focus on the fact that this peace agreement was basically falling apart.”

People Thinking Way Should Years Long Has Beens Stills Facts Problem Fall Left Felt Focus Years Ago Fixed Agreement Falling Apart Sudan Back Burner

Author:Rebecca Hamilton

“[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.”

People Years Difficult Novel Ten Projects Jane Austen Back Burner

Author:Whit Stillman

“We know form past experience that when you put women's issues or face issues on the back burner, they never get dealt with. So all struggles have to be dealt with simultaneously, but within an anti-capitalist framework. A monumental task, but nothing less will do.”

Knows Past Faces Form Struggle Issues Tasks Capitalist Framework Past Experiences Back Burner

Author:Michael Yates

“The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.”

Inspirational Dream School Funny Jobs Found Morning College High School Hunting Graduation Up Early High School Graduation Morning After School Graduation Back Burner

Author:Martha Reeves

“Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.”

Doubt Boxes Opening Insecurity Mistrust Pandora Pandora's Box Back Burner

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.”

Knows Kind Made Father Middle Divorce Passing Away Back Burner

Author:Vince Gill

“I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.”

Dream Inspiring Impossible Impossible Dream Back Burner

Author:Michael Caine

“With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.”

Years Littles Three Bits Little Bit Pressure Three Years Back Burner

Author:Debby Ryan

“When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.”

Giving Children Persons Important Kids Remember Tendencies Now And Then Stew Back Burner

Author:Allison Pearson