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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We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.
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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.
