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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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People

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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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The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
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I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.
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In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
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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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We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.
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I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.
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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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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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I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
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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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I love to teach - that's my role.
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Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.
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Romance is the icing but love is the cake.
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Tears mess up your makeup.
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She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.
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...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.
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The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.
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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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