Ted Allen Quotes
I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Roger Ailes champions women, whether it's Paula Zahn, who worked for Fox, Greta Van Susteren - we've always had a woman in primetime - Megyn Kelly, myself; I had a primetime show.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
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If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.
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Are you kidding? They had me at 'Star Wars.' The kid inside me would've clawed his way out and strangled me if I'd turned this job down.
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
