Nigel Slater Quotes
Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.
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I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm still very much Kate.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
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God never gives us more than we can handle. Everything that comes our way is coming our way so that we can grow and evolve.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.
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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
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Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.
