Jamie Oliver Quotes
I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.
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I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.
