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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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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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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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
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Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.
