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I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him

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Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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Alton Crawford Walter Brown
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.
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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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Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
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Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
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My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that self honesty can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)
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I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
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