Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes
When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.
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I think work begets work.
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I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'
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One can't feel old in a day or overnight!
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As threats emerge - from ISIS to Russia to the Iranian nuclear program - we need a president with the resolve to defend our country and not back down.
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I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.
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There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
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Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.
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I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.
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When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.
