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Damaris Phillips Quotes

My journey was never hard; it just happened. From the second I held a knife, from the second I was in culinary school, it's all felt too good to be true. 'This cannot be my job, my life. Somebody has to be kidding with me!'

Damaris Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: chef
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1980

Topics

Life Good Journey Job School Me

You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.

Joe Garcia

Lie Miami You Big Where Get

The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just... put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate... and eventually, a Facebook emerges.

John Battelle

Beauty Innovation Win Award Go Page

I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.

Melissa Etheridge

Gay Affection Whatever Big Straight

People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

Andre Previn

Fun People Black Think Magic You

Becoming a part of the Marvel Universe was my childhood dream. Like most kids growing up, I read a lot of comic books and acted out some of the characters with friends. Since I can remember, I wanted to be a superhero, so it's not just a movie for me - or just another role - it's a fulfillment of my dreams on so many levels.

Stefan Kapicic

Dreams Childhood Me Growing Up Dream

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Morning Person Morning Person Really

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

Tom Felton

Door Debt Years Point Horrible Been

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

Miranda Otto

Past Always Quirky In The Past Drawn

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

Louise Mensch

Politics People Believe Think You

Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer's Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me.

Lisa Lutz

Money Me Plan First Years Paycheck

Denzel, one of the biggest stars in the world, comes into town, everybody knows about it, and they're ready. They got lawn chairs outside, sitting outside the gates when we're coming on set to work. They're always bringing food from their house to come feed you.

Jovan Adepo

Work Stars Food World You House

I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too.

Donovan

Dreams Generation Say Kind Personal