Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
Quotes to Explore
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
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How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!
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It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
