Nigel Slater Quotes
There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

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I waited for my first kiss.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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I hate birthdays.
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For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.
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Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
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On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.
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Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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You got to realize there will be huge Elvis fans out there who'll be really critical, and I'm sure I'm my worst critic, but to get to do my own interpretation of Elvis and do it on a platform like this is really cool.
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I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.
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What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.
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Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.
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I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
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I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.
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I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.
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There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.