Alton Brown Quotes
Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
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When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.
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We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
