Jacques Pepin Quotes

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.

Jacques Pepin

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 18, 1935

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Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

John Grogan

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Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

John Cusack

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It's nice being liked for playing the nice guy, but it's also fun to be the funny one.

Matt McGorry

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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

Steven Spielberg

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Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

Steven Van Zandt

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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald

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I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

Robbie Williams

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The truth is, as much as I loved writing restaurant reviews, it always felt very self-indulgent to me. It was so much fun, I loved doing it, but there's so much else to say about food.

Ruth Reichl

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I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I think international business experience is an asset in a congressional candidate, particularly in a district with so much international commerce.

Jon Ossoff

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Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, it's time for us to take a hard look at the separate and unequal conditions that still exist in our schools and our communities and rededicate ourselves to fulfilling the promise of equal opportunity for all.

Donna Brazile

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No one else knows the whole story. I was there. I lived through it.

Christine Keeler

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