Marco Pierre White Quotes

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Marco Pierre White

Profession : Chef

Birth : December 11, 1961

Perhaps I created the monster Ramsay, who ended up as a TV personality screaming at celebrities on 'Hell's Kitchen,' doing to them what I had done to him.

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I am not the sort of person who gives up.

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I'm a great fan of farmed products, as long as it's done properly, because it allows people to be able to afford them. If it wasn't for farmed products, a lot of people wouldn't eat so well.

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My children are, without question, the most wonderful thing. I've learnt more about myself through my children than any other experience in my life.

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I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.

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People still think I led a rock and roll lifestyle. I was in my kitchen 100 hours a week; I didn't have time to do that.

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Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher's greed culture.

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'Wall Street' was the big movie of 1987, the year in which Harveys opened. It was a film about greed and self-indulgence, about hunger for success, and Michael Douglas's line, 'breakfast is for wimps,' became a mantra for anyone who wanted to get to the top.

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In 1990 at Harveys, when I was 28 years old, I became the youngest chef to win two Michelin stars. It was a huge achievement.

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I take so much from my life. I have my shooting and my fishing. I have my working life. I have my relationship with my children.

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I love working. I love doing things. I don't like sitting.

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I love the institution of marriage.

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Life is an emotional rollercoaster. It really is.

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Like most fathers, I would do anything for my children, and I've worked very hard at trying to be a good father. I want to give them education, security, everything I never had.

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I think it's really important for every young person to work in a kitchen because you learn a life skill.

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I met my first wife at the fishmonger's in the summer of 1987, some six months after opening Harveys.

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I came from a hard, working-class world which, since my mother's death, had been dominated by men. I hadn't been encouraged to talk about the burden of grief, and because I was severely underdeveloped when it came to sharing my emotions, I mustn't have been the most communicative husband.

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My tortured life - with its extremes and conflicts - might have been difficult for me to deal with, but the press couldn't get enough of it. I was in the papers every day, 'the enfant terrible of the culinary world.'

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I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

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If I did one thing, I made cooking rock n' roll: I made it sexy. I made young kids from rich backgrounds want to come into my world.

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