Not exact matches
«There's a scene in Breaking Bad «s first season in which Walter White's hoodrat lab assistant Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul)
tells Walter he just can't «break bad,» and — when you first hear this snippet of dialogue — you assume what Jesse means is that you can't go from being a law - abiding chemistry teacher to an underground meth
cooker... But this, it turns out, was not Jesse's
point at all.
As a skilful
cook says of a dish in which there are already a great many ingredients: «It still needs just a little pinch of cinnamon» (and we perhaps could hardly
tell by the taste that this little pinch of spice had been added, but she knew precisely why and precisely how it affected the taste of the whole mixture); as an artist says with a view to the color effect of a whole painting which is composed of many, many, colors: «There and there,
at that little
point, it needs a touch of red» (and we perhaps could hardly even discover the red, so carefully has the artist shaded it, although he knows exactly why it should be introduced).
He will play on his own when coaxed but it usually takes me
telling him that I need to do something (
cook, clean, etc)
at which
point he fusses or cries for 30 seconds and then moves on.
I'm one of those moms who always feels like I'm falling short of the things I wanted to do for my kids... be a better
cook, a better housekeeper, a better planner... and on and on... and now that my kids are grown (20's -30's), I think I've grieved over the «if only's» even more and
point out my shortcomings to them, saying I wish I'd done better
at this or that... but they've tried to
tell me not to be so hard on myself.