"I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!"

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Source : "Gail Simmons Dishes on Top Chef and More". Interview with Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. April 29, 2011.

Gail Simmons

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“Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.”
“And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.”
“Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And donâ€™t say â€œIâ€™ll never be goodâ€. You can become better! and one day youâ€™ll wake up and youâ€™ll find out how good you actually became.”
“If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill”
“What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.”
“My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.”
“Making work without memory is probably one of my biggest fears. It would be indistinguishable from work that is lazy.”

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