Ferran Adria Quotes
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
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I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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Management has no divine rights.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.
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It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
