Ferran Adria Quotes
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
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The last guy tried to get out of me writing him a ticket by saying, 'Kiss me, big boy, kiss me like there's no tomorrow!'...as I recall, I didn't write that ticket.
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For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?
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I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'
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There is no rigorous definition of rigor.
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
