Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
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I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.
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Marxism, communism, socialism - the ideologies - did not have the automatic answers to the problem of the relations between the lighter and darker races of mankind. They did not even have an answer to anti-Semitism.
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I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
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Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.
