Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
I am a chef through and through. Everything I do - whether it is cooking for kids in Harlem or cooking in a fine dining establishment - all my days are consumed by food.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
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I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.
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I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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I am a chef through and through. Everything I do - whether it is cooking for kids in Harlem or cooking in a fine dining establishment - all my days are consumed by food.
