Ted Allen Quotes
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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You either are or you're not.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
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As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
