Curtis Stone Quotes
I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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A will finds a way.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.
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I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.
