"It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood."

-- Toby Young

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“I don't try to be a sex bomb. I am one.”
“It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.”
“We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we canâ€™t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When weâ€™re distressed and go to therapy, our therapistâ€™s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesnâ€™t come with plots; itâ€™s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we canâ€™t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.”

Source : John Dufresne (2010). “Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months”, p.277, W. W. Norton & Company
“Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made. It left me feeling more fortified than drained. [Director Alfonso] CuarÃ³n, the most openhearted of directors, prefers to give rather than take away.”

Source : "'Children of Men'". www.salon.com. December 25, 2006.
“Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.”
“Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.”
“No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.”
“It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.”

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