Alex Atala Quotes
The difference between being good, very good and exceptional as a cook is in having the flavours in your memory.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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I'm easy to hate.
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
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The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.
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We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.
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I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.
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We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
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The difference between being good, very good and exceptional as a cook is in having the flavours in your memory.
