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"I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want."
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"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."
Food

"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked."
Fault

"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."
Cooking

"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."
Cooking

"In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
Books

"Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window."
Work

"But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty."
Being

"There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game."
Art

"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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Personal Development

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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Personal Development
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