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You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

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Money, Standards, Need, Compromise

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

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Number, Very, Actually, Humbling

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

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More, Tuna, Like, Oceans

This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me.

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Old-Fashioned, Some, Got, Kitchen

I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.

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Voice, Disciplined, Having, Kitchen

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

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Challenge, Eat, Quite, Ice Cream

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.

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Thought, Going, Mates, Blowing

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

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Think, Some, Other, Inexorably

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

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Including, I Write, Chop, Everything Else

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

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Need, Motivated, Opposed, Scared

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

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Date, How, Release, DVDs

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.

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Nation, Decade, Excelled, Apart

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

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Going, Times, Came, Sunk

I've got around 400 cookbooks.

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Got, Around, Cookbooks

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

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Big, Asking, Like, Egos

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

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Call, Most, Enjoyable, Hobby

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

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Security, Give, Asking, Newborn

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

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Larger, Would, Too, Forces

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.

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I Think, Reasons, Averse, Older

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

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Effort, Failed, Due, Determined

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

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Desire, Find, Keep, Improving

To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.

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Me, Taste, Occasion, Company

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

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Accountant, Falling, Worked, Asleep

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu.

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Good, Go, Taste, Menu

Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.

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Development, Involves, Noses, Ears

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

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Negative, Tend, Take, Comments

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

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Doing, Ways, Would, Dish

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

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Chaos, Cook, Torn, Pages

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

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Week, Every Day, Hours, Eight

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

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Country, Lot, Receive, Pubs

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