Marco Pierre White Quotes

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Marco Pierre White

Profession : Chef

Birth : December 11, 1961

If you really want to know what motivated me as a young man, it was a fear of death.

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I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

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If I think back to the eighties, my methods weren't conventional, but they got results.

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'Kitchen Wars' makes 'MasterChef' look like a walk in the park!

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Can you imagine, I lost my mother at age six? My childhood ended then.

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When I look at old pictures, I see my son Luciano, not me. Luciano looks identical. That's what's extraordinary, the power of a gene pool.

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Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.

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Once you accept and understand yourself, you do things for the right reasons, not the wrong ones, rather than being fuelled by your insecurities.

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English wine is nonsense. They are over-priced and not very good.

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The French make the best wine.

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Buy locally where possible, but if you can't get the very best locally, don't buy locally. Buy it from where it is best.

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When you roast a chicken perfectly, there's nothing more delicious.

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Cuisine Nouvelle was just a concept, and one which, crucially, the English managed to get wrong. I mean, if you run a restaurant, you've got to feed people, not make pretty little pictures on plates to make up for your lack of ability.

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I'm the Christopher Biggins of reality TV.

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The pressure of TV can force people to do odd things.

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People are bored of these 12-course gastronomic menus. They want affordable glamour.

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Restaurants should be democratic; you shouldn't be made to feel privileged for getting a table or being lectured by the waiter.

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Whether dealing with children or chefs, they are all giant babies in need of nurturing.

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