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• Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

  Jeff Smith

  Mistake, Food, Dining

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• Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

  James Howe

  Dance, Dirty, Life Is Short

  James Howe (2005). “Totally Joe”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Goes On, Patches, Certain

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

  Ina Garten

  Decision, Meals, Make Or Break

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Together, Flavor, Venture

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• I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Cat, Alcohol

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.117, Anchor

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• I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Thinking, Hands

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.402, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Uptown, Way, Next

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

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• In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy, a curiosity that was too sharp to be crushed immediately, a lack of order in his ideas, a weakening of his spiritual boundaries, which were promptly twisted, an excessive passion for running along forked roads and wearying of the path as soon as he had started on it, mental indigestion demanding varied dishes, quickly tiring of the foods he desired, digesting almost all, but badly, was his state.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Running, Spiritual, Passion

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• Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  People, Demand, Ruthless

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• If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Empires, Pizza, Ifs

  Daniel Manus Pinkwater (1990). “Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, and Vulgar Excesses”, Addison-Wesley

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• You can get bogged down in a recipe that's got a lot of steps and a million ingredients, and it takes all day to make. And then you realize, you've just got one dish. For Thanksgiving, you want an abundance of choices, and so you want dishes that you can put together really quickly, but that doesn't mean less flavor.

  Ina Garten

  Mean, Choices, Together

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

  Jodi Picoult

  Horse, Coffee, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Morning, Flower, Night

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• I really, really love China. To be honest, the food is so amazing! When I first went to Beijing and Shanghai, I actually became obsessed with soup dumplings, and would stand in lines and get them on the street. It was something that I became obsessed with and when I came back to the States, I did all this research for the best soup dumplings in the Los Angeles area and in the New York area and it was amazing to find those Asian dishes that were authentic and I can enjoy them at home.

  Tyra Banks

  New York, Home, Research

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• I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening.

  Patti Smith

  Afternoon, Too Much, Evening

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

  Tim Allen

  Dog, Cat, Dies

  "Tim Allen Woofs it Up in The Shaggy Dog". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 03, 2006.

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• I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Hard Work, Average, Car

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• My favourite dish is my chocolate mousse. It's like heaven on earth. It's the best chocolate mousse that you could ever imagine. You have to start with the highest-quality chocolate.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Heaven, Chocolate, Quality

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

  Bill Gates

  Night, Bridges, Volunteer

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

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• I have a food show.It's not just baseball people. It's a mixture of baseball people, actors, musicians, chefs and whatnot. They bring out different dishes, and at the end of the show, I give the one I like the most the "Fielder's choice." It's good TV.

  Prince Fielder

  Baseball, People, Giving

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.

  Penelope Cruz

  Littles, Looks, Cooks

  "Penelope Cruz Interview BROKEN EMBRACES". Interview With Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 5, 2009.

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• People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.

  Paula Deen

  Two, People, Southern

  "Paula Deen's Comeuppance?" by Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.

  Zoe Saldana

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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