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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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
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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 did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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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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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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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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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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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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There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.
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The reason I got into filmmaking was super naive: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we don't get to hear heard and the images and the stories that we don't get to see seen. I would like to normalize that.
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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.
