Mario Batali Quotes

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Mario Batali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 19, 1960

Topics

FoodNew YorkInterestingAmerica

We've reinvented ourselves many, many, many times.

John L. Flannery

OurselvesManyTimesReinvented

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes

ConfidenceGreatArtistPerfectLess

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

Matthew Macfadyen

WorkLovePeopleMeThinkDoing

I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.

John Scalzi

ScienceTimePeopleI CanCrimeSee

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

Steven Johnson

ProblemTelevisionMoreBiggerSense

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

Sting

WorkManElephantBigBig FanFan

I have to say, I feel really lucky. I've had a lot of great characters to play.

Toni Collette

GreatFeelPlaySayLuckyI Feel

No dessert. I don't do dessert.

Ronnie Coleman

Dessert

I had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.

Liza Minnelli

SometimesBoringWatchingDancingUp

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

Loretta Swit

SchoolLovedSameThingsEnjoyed

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

Jean Alesi

GoodThinkYouKnowEverythingBig

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Dick Cavett

DepressionBetterSuicideIrony

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