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 sign up for a TV show, you don't know if it's going to be for a pilot or for the rest of your life, so I wanted to play a character that I enjoyed thoroughly, and there weren't that many of them out there.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
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When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.
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My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.
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I have an amazing wife and three daughters that always keep me motivated.
