Ted Allen Quotes

Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

Ted Allen

• Believe
• Food
• Day
• Joy
• Survival

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• I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Day
  • End
  • Win

• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mistake

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Death
  • Taken

• I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Live
  • Sports
  • Better

• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Man
  • Ladies

• You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Enough
  • Stupid
  • Nobody

• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • Entrepreneur

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

  

  Rain
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Fans

• I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Team

• My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Reason
  • Interest
  • Impact

• The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • You
  • Argument
  • Satisfaction

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• I guess I talk about her because I'm interested; I'm listening. Taylor Swift's words are so valuable to so many young people, not just her #GirlSquad.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • People
  • Words
  • Listening

• I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Good
  • Work
  • Creativity

• Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

  

  Al Green
  • People
  • Believe

• I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

  

  John McCormack
  • Believe
  • Art
  • True

• Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Day