Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes
I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.
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When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.
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In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way.
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I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.
