J.J. Brown Quotes

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it

If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.

I feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.

The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.

I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.

When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.

I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.

I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.

I do know I'm a control freak.

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.

I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.

I never rated my cuddle factor, but I expect it's pretty low.

I am publicly apolitical.

I don't like to be polarizing. It's not who I am.

I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the pig.

I hate using the word coagulant.

I keep the "ThunderCats" thermos safely in the kitchen.

Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.

If I took my turkey out of the refrigerator and, like, threw it in a dumpster or drug it down the street in New York for a while [it will make people sick].

I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture loss.

I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

Let us assume nothing, and we shall not be moritifed.

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.