Ted Allen Quotes
I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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I went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning.
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About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.
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I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.