Thu Tran Quotes

#1. It's very meditative to watch Food Network shows. I mean, you might be taking notes, but you're probably not. It's meditative to watch someone cook, just like it is to watch your mother cook, or anyone cook.

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#2. My parents want me to be a lawyer or something like that. Something steady. That's always their main concern as parents: "Oh, you need a salary, you need life insurance, why aren't you having kids?" But in the end, they're happy about it.

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#3. I always feel in a funny place when I'm really asked to inform people, so I just try to take the more absurdist route - like, "this is how you could do it, but it's actually turning into a cat now. This might happen at home I guess, but it probably won't."

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#4. I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

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#5. I like the idea of baking. I'd like to be good at it. But I feel like I'm young and one day I can be.

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#6. Instructional programming is really great. To me, it's very enjoyable to watch a process.

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#7. I don't want to tell people what to think. I just want to show people what I think.

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#8. I look up to my father, because he's very, very experimental in his cuisine, and he puts a lot of love into things. He's the best. To me.

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#9. It seems like it happens pretty often - there's always something that happens that's bad. About 40 percent of the food I make doesn't come out so good, only because I'm experimenting and it just doesn't work out right. It's always a learning experience.

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#10. I don't have a very good relationship with baking. I do bake sometimes, but my natural instinct is to just do what feels right a lot, and that's what you're not supposed to do in baking. I'm not a good baker.

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