Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
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The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
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My mom, ever the Italian, made braised chicken with tomato.
