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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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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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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I voted for you during your last election.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.
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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.
