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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."
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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
"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
"Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously."
Work
"For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that."
Kitchen
"The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with."
Power
"I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him."
Time
"My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera."
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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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"A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?"
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"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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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
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"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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"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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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."
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"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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