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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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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It used to be a lot easier to get a book deal.
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It's amazing what people will give away for free just to get rid of it.
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I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew I didn't have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences - it was amazing.
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I have an amazing wife and three daughters that always keep me motivated.
