Kitchen Quotes - Page 27

• I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.

  Dave Brubeck

  Brother, House, Orchestra

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• When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

  Cat Cora

  Growing Up, Home, Heart

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• I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

  Alexis Denisof

  College, Class, House

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

  Kiran Desai

  Writing, Thinking, Cooking

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• I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

  Elizabeth David

  Two Friends, Equipment, Shops

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• I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Children, Writing, Typewriters

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• Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

  Tyler Florence

  Space, Mushrooms, Feet

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• I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.

  Ari Graynor

  Mom, Baby, Tvs

  "Shades of Graynor". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Cousin, Writing

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• I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Distance, Views, Cities

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• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  Nadia Giosia

  Children, Fun, Space

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I'm not the neatest person in the kitchen by any means.

  Amy Brenneman

  Mean, Persons

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• Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.

  Big Joe Turner

  Men, Breakfast, Causes

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• People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Soup Kitchens, Self, Volunteer

  "Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.

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• I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Children, Cooks

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• I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

  Tippi Hedren

  Makeup, Rooms, Kind

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• Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.

  M. Ageyev

  Smell, Lust, Female

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• Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

  Alex Kapranos

  Character, Wind, Vagrants

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

  Jane Lynch

  Singing, Kitchen Table, Tables

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• The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

  Marian McPartland

  Space, House, Dining

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• We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

  Eleanor Brown

  Sister, Book, Order

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• I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

  Jacques Pepin

  Simple, Pbs, Florida

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• I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

  Jacques Pepin

  President, Nehru, Saws

  "Jacques Pã©pin Is Not A Mallow Man" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

  Jacques Pepin

  Kids, Night, Thinking

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• I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

  Wolfgang Puck

  School, Left

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