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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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 cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.
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I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
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This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?
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In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.
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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
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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.
