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Life itself is the proper binge.

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Julia Child
Age: 91 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 15
Died: 2004
Died: August 13
Chef
Cook
Television Presenter
Writer
Pasadena
California
Julia Carolyn Child
Binge
Culinary
Cooks
Proper
Cooking
Food
Life

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I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.
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I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.
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Never apologize for your cooking.
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People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.
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If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.
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I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
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I think every woman should have a blowtorch.
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Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
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When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.
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