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Alton Brown Quotes

We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Down Getting

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Better Know Up Industry Who Shake

There is such an emotional connection between the bride and her wedding dress, whereas in ready-to-wear you may just be focusing on color or prints for that particular season.

Dress Color Bride Wedding You May

Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.

Fun Me Saying Opinions Sketch Just

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

Job Think You Come And Go Go Done

Everybody can have a viral success. You find something unique, that can happen.

Success You Unique Find Happen

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

Animal Kitchen Waves You Chicken

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

War Experiment Vietnam Laboratory

As I've got older, I've become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager's team talk; as a kid, if I'm honest, I never listened.

Team Manager Become Talk Never Kid

There are ups and downs, but whatever happens, you have to trust and believe in yourself.

Believe In Yourself Trust Yourself

I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

Day Bridge Game Week Year Play

It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writing about memory.

Myself Memory Me Brave Crazy Story

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

Family Greatness Mom Loved Early Go

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