Andrew Zimmern Quotes
Here's the lines I draw: I never say something I don't believe - ever, ever, ever; and I won't endorse a product I don't like and use. When the cameras are off, we are who we are when they're on.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
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. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
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I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.
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I believe that high, sustainable growth rates can only be possible on the basis of macro-stability.
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It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.
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Here's the lines I draw: I never say something I don't believe - ever, ever, ever; and I won't endorse a product I don't like and use. When the cameras are off, we are who we are when they're on.
