My college degree was in theater. But th... | Alton Brown

Success Years

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

- Alton Brown

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In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

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Food Thinking Job Time

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.

- Alton Brown

Time

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

- Alton Brown

England Thought Job Years

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

- Alton Brown

Success Years

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

- Alton Brown

Being World

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

- Alton Brown

Idea

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

- Alton Brown

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Success Want

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

- Valentina Tereshkova

Success People

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

- William Hurt

Success

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

- Lefty Gomez

Success Want

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.

- Paula Cole

Success Nothing

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

- Liv Ullmann

Success

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

- Larry Ellison