Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

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• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • You
  • Education

• 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.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Like
  • Down
  • Piano

• I always work with 18 friends.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Always

• It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Money
  • You
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • School
  • Culture
  • Ambition

• 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.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Father

• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Television
  • Industry
  • Sphere

• You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  

  Foster Friess
  • You
  • Control
  • Circumstances

• Music was my one way to vent.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Way
  • Vent

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Trying
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night

• There are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.

  

  Alan Rusbridger
  • Laws
  • Privacy
  • Cleaned Up

• These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that.

  

  Brian Welch
  • Women
  • Friendships

• I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • World
  • Work
  • Hope

• It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Single
  • Marriage
  • Failure

• A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Heart
  • Alone
  • Proud

• Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Bitter
  • Harsh
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