Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

Yotam Ottolenghi

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• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Up
  • Know
  • Like

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Life
  • Try

• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Become
  • Seeing
  • Structure

• We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Judge
  • Stereotypes

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Country
  • May
  • Marriage

• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Body

• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Movie
  • Sense

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Me
  • Fool
  • Shame

• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Know
  • Same

• Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • Working
  • Invest

• In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Church

• We can't legislate human nature.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Human Nature

• My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

  

  David Bailey
  • Mother
  • Father

• I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Father
  • Fear
  • Couple

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food