Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I love working with women.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.
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People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!
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If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate to it. You can be fearless in your storytelling if you're vigilant about protecting your characters.
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I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
