Tom Colicchio Quotes

I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.

Tom Colicchio

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1962

Topics

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In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.

Joe Gebbia

CommunityTogetherYouRaceBigger

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Andrew Lo

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My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.

Melissa Leo

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Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

Max Bill

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You get to a certain age, and you learn what looks good on you.

Michael Bastian

GoodAgeLearnYouLooksGet

My wife's a redneck, and she loves a muscle car.

John Schnatter

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Frustration is not a work plan.

Ami Ayalon

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All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried.

Robert Drew

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I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City.

Robin Lord Taylor

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Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

Ron Livingston

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I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

Michael Spiller

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I've always been a good ensemble player.

Mimi Kennedy

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