Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I always work with 18 friends.
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It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
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During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.
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I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.
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The skies they were ashen and sober;The leaves they were crisped and sere - The leaves they were withering and sere;It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most immemorial year.
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When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.
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There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.
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Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle; therefore, our primary task is to organize the masses and lead them in the struggle for economic freedom.
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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
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I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.
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Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
