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No one's more important than people.

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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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...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
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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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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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In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.
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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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Life itself is the proper binge.
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She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.
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Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
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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 never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.
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I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
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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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If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.
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Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.
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Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.
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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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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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