Ted Allen Quotes
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind 'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.
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Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.
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Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
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There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.
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In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It's about going all the way.
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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
