Ted Allen Quotes
No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
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Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
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It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.
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I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break.
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Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.
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No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
