Curtis Stone Quotes
When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.
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When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.
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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
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Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.
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After all, tomorrow is another day.
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When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.
