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Rocco DiSpirito

"We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution."

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

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"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

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Akiroq Brost

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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Akiroq Brost

"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"

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Akiroq Brost

"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."

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Akiroq Brost

"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."

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"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it."

Business

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Rocco DiSpirito
"I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score."

Home

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Rocco DiSpirito
"Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature."

Food

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Rocco DiSpirito
"There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can."

Help

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Rocco DiSpirito
"It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out."

Work

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Rocco DiSpirito
"At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare."

Attention

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Rocco DiSpirito
"I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine."

People

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Rocco DiSpirito
"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position."

Food

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Rocco DiSpirito
"There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines."

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Rocco DiSpirito
"In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard."

Work

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