Quotes by Heston Blumenthal - Page 1

I've got around 400 cookbooks.
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Cookbooks
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I tend to take negative comments to heart.
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Comment
Heart
Negative
Comments
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I am not the world's most confident person.
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Persons
World
World I Am Person
Confident
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I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.
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Different
Different Ways
Trying
Way
Dish
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What gets me excited is the original principle.
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Excited
Originals
Principles
Principle
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If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu
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Goes On
Menus
Taste
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A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.
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Country
Pubs
Stars
Receive
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If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu.
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Taste
Go
Menu
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I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
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Desire
Faults
Improving
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It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.
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Food
Cream
Hockey
Ice
Ice Cream
Eat
Quite
Challenge
Crab
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Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.
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Notes
Pleasure
Senses
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Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.
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Complaints
Hours
Complaint
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Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.
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People
Shy
Would Be
Forces
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You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.
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Sad
Dvds
Life Is
Release
Release Date
Life Your Know
Life Sad Your
Date
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I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.
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Determined
Dues
Effort
Due
Failed
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We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.
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Several
Sunk
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Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.
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Branded
Humbling
Numbers
Restaurants
World
Restaurant
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You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.
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Compromise
Needs
Standards
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No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.
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Clock
Fall
Waiting
Accountant
Asleep
Falling
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It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.
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Home
Giving Up
Newborn
Newborn Child
Family Home Wife
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And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
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Asking
Asking Questions
Unsure
Questions
Egos
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I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.
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Morning
Lucky
Want
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At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.
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Home
Book
Chaos
Gone
Pages
Torn
Cook
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I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.
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Eating
Hands
Including
Knives
Writing
Chop
Everything Else
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But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.
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Aspect
Enjoyable
Hobbies
Aspects
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To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.
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Company
Location
Taste
Much
Moment
Occasion
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I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
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Motivated
Needs
Scared
Succeed
Opposed
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I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.
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Eight
Sleep
Years
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There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
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Ocean
Blue
Extinction
Taken
Tuna
Near
Oceans
Worldwide
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Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.
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Development
Ears
Eye
Focused
Heart
Noses
Senses
Eyes
Involves
The Only Thing
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I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.
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Eight
Raised
Shouting
Voice
Years
Anyone Else
Disciplined
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We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.
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Absurd
Dining
Eating
France
Mates
Blowing
Experienced
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This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me.
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Kings
Bother
Care
Chef
Don't Care
Kitchen
Calls
Chefs
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As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.
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Kids
Creativity
Thinking
Averse
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You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
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Linked
Meals
Memorable
Memories
Senses
Taste
Thinking
Inexorably
Mental
Ultimately
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I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.
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Art
British
Cooking
Fashion
Photography
Skills
Time Best Art
Apart
Best Time History
Best Art Time
Decade
Excelled
Horrendous
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