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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I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.
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I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.
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I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
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Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.
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I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.
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The difference between being good, very good and exceptional as a cook is in having the flavours in your memory.
