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"A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that."
Food,
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"I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile."
Food
"I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't."
Work
"I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials."
Idea
"Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured."
Being
"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it."
Being
"A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that."
Food
"Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs."
Science
"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
Committee
"Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it."
Hate
"I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning."
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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Personal Development
"A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?"
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Personal Development
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
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Personal Development
"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
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Personal Development
"We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs..."
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Personal Development
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
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Personal Development
"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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Personal Development
"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."
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Personal Development
"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."
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Personal Development
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