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If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

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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
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Bored
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Finished
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Never apologize for your cooking.
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Sooner or later the public will forget you the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.
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A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.
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If you're afraid of butter, use cream.
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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
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When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.
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Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
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Fat gives things flavor.
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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'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.
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I love to teach - that's my role.
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If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.
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Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
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I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.
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If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.
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Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
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The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.
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