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Alton Brown Quotes

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

Alton Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 30, 1962

Topics

Daughter Food Job School Lunch Go

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.

John Lanchester

Truth Parents People Tell Own Bring

It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.

John Hillcoat

Me Marketing Awards Film Give Per

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

Robert J. Waldinger

Parenting Sibling Relationships Poor

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Althea Gibson

People Me Game Enough Help Way

I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

Moby

Animal Dark Worst Difficult Rights

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

Lisa See

Beauty Age Woman Win Feet Never

After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.

Jordi Molla

Good Health Fruit Bread Sometimes

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I Am America Insurance You Done Us

It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.

Craig Ferguson

People Interesting Doing You Know

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

Alison Krauss

Music Me Listening Find I Can Want

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

Iron Curtain Iron Curtain Continent

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Wilson Mizner

Women Power Water Tears World Most