Joel Robuchon Quotes
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.
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I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.
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If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.
