"I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch."

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Source : "René Redzepi: the outsider" by Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

Rene Redzepi

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“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”
“Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.”
“Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.”
“Cause you know, life is what we make it and a chance is like a picture, it'd be nice if you just take it”
“In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.”

Source : "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.
“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.”
“There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to every MySpace page, so what's the difference? It's just noise that you filter out.”
“At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.”

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