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How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

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Julia Child
Age: 91 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 15
Died: 2004
Died: August 13
Chef
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Television Presenter
Writer
Pasadena
California
Julia Carolyn Child
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I was 32 when I started cooking up until then, I just ate.
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I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.
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She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.
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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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Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.
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In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.
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People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.
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As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.
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Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
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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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Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.
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I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
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Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
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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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Eating is the secret to good cooking.
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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
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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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Tears mess up your makeup.
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There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.
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