Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Universe is nothing, but human thought.

I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.

No man is an island, no man stands alone

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.

I'll wait for you under the bluebells. I'll be there always.