Jacques Pepin Quotes
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the next day.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.
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Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.
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I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
