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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

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.
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I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.
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