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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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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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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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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I'm still very much Kate.
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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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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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The '60s look wasn't something I consciously chose, but in my late teens, I found myself styling my hair in a retro way and liking clothes - the shapes and silhouettes - that were from that era. They just reflected who I was.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
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Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
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Time seems to stop in certain places.
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I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
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I like the pressure.
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I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
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I don't like the George Costanza-style wallet.
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Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.
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Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.
