Dishes Quotes - Page 24

• A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

  Julien Green

  People, Popularity

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• My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Challenges, Cooking, Soul

  "Aaron Sanchez, Chef Of The Week (RECIPE)". Interview with Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

  Robin Cook

  Illustration, Perfect, Way

  2001 Speech to the Social Market Foundation, London, 19 Apr.

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• I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.

  Isla Fisher

  Book, Going Out, Looks

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

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• I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.

  Kristen Stewart

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Goes On, Patches, Certain

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

  Ina Garten

  Decision, Meals, Make Or Break

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• You can get bogged down in a recipe that's got a lot of steps and a million ingredients, and it takes all day to make. And then you realize, you've just got one dish. For Thanksgiving, you want an abundance of choices, and so you want dishes that you can put together really quickly, but that doesn't mean less flavor.

  Ina Garten

  Mean, Choices, Together

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Empires, Pizza, Ifs

  Daniel Manus Pinkwater (1990). “Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, and Vulgar Excesses”, Addison-Wesley

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• Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  People, Demand, Ruthless

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• It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.

  Joe Bastianich

  Stars, Cities, Competition

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• Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Imagination, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.179, Courier Corporation

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• The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fruit, Poison, Needs

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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• I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Coffee, Ambition, Boys

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Flight, Frills

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• When I masturbate I fantasize about having my own apartment. I used to think about Cindy Crawford now I think about leaving a dish in the sink overnight.

  Greg Giraldo

  Thinking, Leaving, Used

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• You might be a redneck if your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  School, Kids, Redneck

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• Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.

  Tim Kimmel

  Children, Purpose, World

  Tim Kimmel (2013). “Little House on the Freeway: Help for the Hurried Home”, p.202, Multnomah

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• If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Real, Writing, Night

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• I tell a lot of interesting stories and talk about my background and have a lot of fun. We have a lot of pictures. They actually came to my house and shot me painting my toenails and doing dishes. But I never really do the dishes.

  Carmen Electra

  Fun, Interesting, House

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• One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.

  Ted Allen

  Feelings, Intuition, Becoming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need for new ideas and insights to occur. If you don't know what comes next in the story... clean your toilet. Change the bed sheets. For Christ sakes, dust the computer. A better idea will come.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Thoughtful, Dust

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• I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.

  Zulay Henao

  Glasses, Cooking, Kitchen

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.

  Tyler Perry

  My Favorite, Menus, Cooks

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Broken, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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