Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes
Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
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I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara.
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The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a body utterly shattered, made for one of those 'ones to tell the grandchildren' memories.
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Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook.
