Alton Brown Quotes
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
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Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
