Ted Allen Quotes
One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.
Quotes to Explore
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I like to prove people wrong.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
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I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
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Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.
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One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.
