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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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
