Ted Allen Quotes
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.
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I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.
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In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they were unable to claim any sort of identity. Others I met found who they truly were, and they generally found it through service to others. They became teachers when there was no school, books or pencils.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
