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The interesting thing
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about art to me, and painting,
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is you use
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the same thinking with painting.
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You're mucking around with colour,
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form, texture, shape.
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And with cooking, you're doing the same thing.
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You mucking around with form, texture, colour, and shape.
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I started writing for television,
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when television started
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because I'm 87,
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and so I was here when television started,
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and I wrote stuff.
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And I noticed that the bloke in front of the camera
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got more money than the poor bugger that write the scripts.
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And so I decided
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to go from behind the camera to the front of the camera,
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and I then realised
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that there were too many policemen
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on television, and all sorts of other people
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that seemed to know what they were doing,
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but there were no cooks,
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and a cook is what I am.
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I started cooking on television,
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and the ABC said, "No one will be interested."
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We did 900 shows before the ABC got bored,
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and they took it off, but the public weren't bored.
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I was always interested
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in not telling the viewer
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how to make toffee
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to cover a fish.
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What I wanted them to do is understand
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how to cook the bloody fish to start
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because cooking is only supplying heat to food.
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If you don't supply heat,
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it's not cooked, the same as painting.
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Painting is supplying paint to a surface,
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whether it's a canvas or a piece of cardboard.
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For instance, I paint my own shoes.
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I buy the cheapest shoes I can get
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from whoever they are,
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a commercial mob.
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And then I come home and I paint them,
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and I just put colour on them,
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so people think
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that I've either gone out in my slippers,
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or else I've got expensive shoes.
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The thing is, use whatever paints you like.
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Use whatever colour you like,
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and make sure that you are pleased with what you do.
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Don't worry about any...
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Imagine if we said to Picasso,
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"You've painted three eyes down the side of the face,
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"you silly bugger, that's wrong.
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"You should only paint one eye,
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"or if you're painting the face full on two eyes."
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Do what you want to do.
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Do what you think is right,
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and then you'll create your own style
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and your own imagination.
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Because cooking is not following a recipe book.
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Cooking is your imagination,
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and painting is your imagination.
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So make sure you think about what you're doing.
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So when you're designing your food or your painting,
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make sure that you understand absolutely what you're doing.
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Do it to suit you, and not some bloody book
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that tells you how to do it.
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There we go.
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Jan and I have been married 65 years, I think,
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which is a bloody long while.
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Jan works as my assistant.
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And when we were filming to the ABC,
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Jan would be down one end of the bench
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cooking three of everything,
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in case I buggered it up,
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or dropped it on the floor,
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she'd have spares.
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So we've worked together all our lives.
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Jan came out from England, she'd been the secretary
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to the first, Dag Hammarskjöld,
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the first Secretary of the United Nations,
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and she was in there, a hostess,
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and she's done all sorts of things,
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and then she met me,
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and she's had a pretty boring life ever since.
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Anyway, we met, got married,
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and I must admit, I couldn't want for a better assistant.
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Well, do you,
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have I said everything?
Yes, I think so.
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Bored the shit out of everyone
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for long enough, you reckon?
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(speaker's speech indistinct)