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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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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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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Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
