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If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

Julia Child

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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
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Pasadena
California
Julia Carolyn Child
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I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.
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...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.
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I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
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Fat gives things flavor.
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A party without cake is really just a meeting.
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It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.
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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 don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.
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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 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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