Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
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Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
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Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.
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You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.
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Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.
