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This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

Thomas Keller

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Thomas Keller
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 14
Chef
Cookbook Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Restaurateur
Camp Pendleton
Challenges
Mundane
Passion
Repeated
Great
Gratification
Routine
Maintain
Challenge
Everyday
Derive
Deep
Endlessly

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