Jose Andres Quotes
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I think I need security.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.
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I really love being in a room and developing work.: being at the table, looking at the script for the first time, and putting a story on its feet.
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My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
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My wife made me get a cellphone, which I keep in my briefcase. I've never used it.
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I have an amazing wife and three daughters that always keep me motivated.
