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“I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.”

Ifs Mother My Own Terrible Skills Cooking Raised Cooks Kitchen

Author:Ben Affleck

“When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.”

Writing Self Song Turns Novel Discipline Letters Crafts Kitchen Acquire Instruction Kitchen Sinks

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to steer the sound and music to different music and throwing in the "kitchen sink" of sorts into the music. With that way, you end up putting in much more than before and you could even make much more next time around.”

Way Writing Trying Littles Different Ends Used Next Sound Innocent Kitchen Throwing Next Time Steers Sound And Music Kitchen Sinks Different Music

Author:Steve "Lips" Kudlow

“If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.”

Ifs Humor Kids Funny Comedy Draws Kitchen Magnet

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.”

Way Doe Important Fun Effort Too Much Design Having Fun Kitchen Wow Guests Entertaining Dishes Delicious Recipes Outstanding Good Way Menus Time Spent Appetizers

Author:Debi Mazar

“Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.”

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Author:Gordon Ramsay

“I live in the past when it comes to movies, but my own career is a matter of remembering the nuts and bolts and things like eating chocolate cake and drinking milk with Jack [Kirby] in his kitchen, but that's all I remember.”

Matter Past Remember My Own Careers Eating Drinking Kitchen Chocolate Cake Nuts Milk Bolts Chocolate Cake Nuts And Bolts Eating Chocolate

Author:Mike Royer

“Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.”

Looks Including Kitchen Expensive Collections Thrown Grotesque Couture Kitchen Sinks

Author:Alexander McQueen

“I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".”

Want Doe Humor Seems Funny Jobs Easy Add Kitchen Refrigerators Appliances Toasters Blenders

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“My girlfriend works at Hooters. In the kitchen.”

Humor Funny Girlfriend Kitchen My Girlfriend

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I remember watching Soulja Boy on YouTube over and over again to prepare for it. For the first one, I was up all night in my kitchen, practicing the dance, because I knew I had to dance with Timberlake and that guy can dance.”

Firsts Remember Night Guy Boys Kitchen All Night Youtube That Guy Up All Night

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.”

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Author:David Lee Roth

“Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.”

World Sometimes Kids Safe Kitchen Delusion

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means they make a mess of your kitchen or living room. It's all about your perspective on these things. Let them play. When you do, the kids do not have to be reintroduced to ways of questioning nature, and the task of promoting science would be a trivial exercise.”

Ifs World Way Mean Children Play Would Be Kids Natural Rooms Perspective Exercise Tasks Obvious Mess Kitchen Questioning Promoting Living Room

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I love cooking and kitchens.It's just a great world, and I wanted to explore it. You see the façade, the outside, the public part, and then you just walk through one door marked "Staff Only" and you're in a different universe.”

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Author:Steven Knight

“Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.”

Ifs Life Is Forget Building Kitchen Checklists

Author:Brian Tracy

“I've got a bit of Scottish Blood... On my kitchen knife!!”

Humor Funny Bits Blood Kitchen Knives Scottish Kitchen Knives

Author:Milton Jones

“Working in kitchens with Mexicans you always listen to the Spanish channel and that's what I use. Whenever I cook I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.”

Thinking Use Body Your Body Cooks Kitchen Salsa

Author:Action Bronson

“You know how Mexican restaurants always have "border" in the name: Border Grill, Border Cafe. You wouldn't do that to black people: Kunta's Kitchen or Shackles. They don't do it to white people. You don't see the Honkey Grill, the Cracker Barrel... oh, nevermind.”

People Knows Humor Funny Names Black White Know How Borders Kitchen Restaurants Black People Mexican Barrels Shackles Cafes Crackers Nevermind

Author:George Lopez

“Larger game teams are often a bit more experienced at working with writers, which is often a huge relief. However, it also means that there are more people wanting to wander around the narrative kitchen telling you how you should be making your story pies.”

People Should Mean Stories Games Bits Team Huge Wander Narrative Kitchen Relief Pie

Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.”

Years Made Young Mother Interest Brother Involved Teenager My Brother Kitchen My Sister Get Involved Stirring

Author:Ainsley Harriott

“Chef means boss and in France you get an office chef and you get a chef on a building site, etc. So I'm a chef de cuisine, chef of the kitchen, and that means that I'm in charge of a team.”

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Author:Paul Rankin

“Part of being a great restaurant chef is having an ability to bring all those people together, rather like a captain on a rugby field or a coach. It's also being a great teacher, because I'm only one person in a kitchen of 10 and I need to be able to bring all those people together and to teach them. I need to be able to communicate my thoughts and my process to them.”

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Author:Paul Rankin

“You need good energy and you need to be fit because it's very tiring. A lot of the work is quite heavy and quite smelly. That's why girls drift out of the kitchen because they get fed up smelling like fish and vegetables and things like that.”

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Author:Paul Rankin

“The stressful part of that is that you're not a chef. People who have learnt to be chefs have spent years in kitchens just on the vegetable section and then move up to the fish section, etc, whereas you have to do everything and it's really full on, but it's an amazing experience.”

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Author:Jayne Middlemiss

“One of the key things is to encourage people to have a go in the kitchen and not to be embarrassed by it. Try and spend a couple of nights a week cooking something up. It doesn't have to be complicated, it can be something really simple.”

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Author:William Katt

“The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power of food as a force for participatory democracy, as a means of empowerment for those who have little and as a lens through which we embrace, and in fact relish, our differences but see and live through our commonalities. If you eat, then you are a part of this.”

Ifs Mean Littles Facts Opportunity Force Differences Democracy Empowerment Embrace Kitchen Soup Lenses Relish Menus Commonality Participatory Democracy

Author:Sam Kass

“The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.”

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Book:Delights and Prejudices

Source: Delights and Prejudices

“From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.”

Littles Stills Blue Rings Shooting Kitchen Dishes Valentine Memento Wedding Ring Kitchen Sinks

Author:Michelle Williams

“In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.”

May Individual Mistake Focus Kitchen Examining

Author:William Pollard

“When we were trying to get the money together for the film, one reason that was consistently given for not investing in it was that everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.”

People Trying Wells Reason Enough Together Film Three Given Audience Minutes Direct Investing Kitchen Consistently Saying No Chatting

Author:Bruce Beresford

“In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.”

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Book:The Armchair James Beard

Source: The Armchair James Beard

“If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.”

Ifs Needs Believe Doe Play Everyday These Days Kitchen Heroic Commonplace Recreation Humdrum

Author:Peter Marshall

“If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.”

Ifs Want Should Culture Next Environment Society Civilization One Day Intelligent Environmental Kitchen Civilized

Author:Sting

“I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.”

Giving Littles Hard Kids Taught Hard Work Grew Balance Give Me Structure Kitchen Good Place Incorrigible

Author:Aaron Sanchez

“My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.”

Country Inspiration Mother Influence Grew Mom Grew Up Critics My Mom Kitchen Grandmother My Grandmother Mexican Pioneers Cuisine

Author:Aaron Sanchez

“Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.”

Men Soul Water Truth Is Prejudice Bottom Every Man Kitchen Shells Housewife Oysters Lurking Kettles Limes Hearsay Iridescent

Book:Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

“Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.”

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Author:Robert Heller

“Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.”

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Author:Daniel Webster

“My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!”

Looks Littles Bits Childhood Little Bit Kitchen Wonderland

Author:Paris Hilton

“What's a soup kitchen?”

Funny Inspiring Money Stupid Kitchen Soup Soup Kitchens

Author:Paris Hilton

“I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.”

Thinking Writing House Left Letters Planes Kitchen Drawers Love Letter

Author:Sophie Calle

“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.”

Has Beens Simple Murder Tables Kitchen Tenderness Exquisite Kitchen Table

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.”

Ifs Way Trying Past Song Rooms Audience Stage Drinking Silly Tea Relate Kitchen Making Up Drinking Tea

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.”

Lying Honest Being Honest Kitchen Banquets

Book:Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

Source: Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

“Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.”

Sometimes Winning Sex Tables Wine Drinking Including Kitchen Satisfying Spontaneous Toss Protocol Kitchen Table

Author:Bob Blumer

“I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.”

“I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass jar!) and instantly incorporate it in a project. It makes me feel creative on an every day basis.”

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Author:Signe Baumane

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