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• I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

  Liam Neeson

  Dry, Littles, Pages

  "Liam Neeson talks Kinsey!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 10, 2004.

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• Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Two, Apples, Three

  "StarChefs" Interview, www.starchefs.com. October 2011.

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• By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Growing Up, Alabama

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• Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

  Mike Royko

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baseball

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• I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

  Colonel Sanders

  Apples, Biscuits, Steak

  "KFC dishes up Colonel Sanders' autobiography for free" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Hero, Kids

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• I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.

  Ally Carter

  Mom, Nice, Thinking

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau

  Tamora Pierce

  Wish, Ifs

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• Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eels, Frogs, Puddleglum

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.56, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

  John Piper

  Night, Apples, Heaven

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.17, SPCK

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• Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

  Leif Enger

  Bullying, Peaches, Apologetic

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

  Terry Pratchett

  Meat, Hot, Buns

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• It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Love, Sweet, Kissing

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.229, Bantam

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• I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.

  James Frey

  Years, Cake, Looks

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.63, Penguin

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• Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler, 'have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,' he shuddered, 'a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry pie?' No,' Charles admitted. There y'go,' said Tummeler. It's cause they can't stand the goodness in it.' Can't argue with you there,' said Charles. Foods is good and evil, just like people, or badgers, or even scowlers.' Evil food?' said Charles. Parsnips,' said Tummeler, 'Them's as evil as they come.

  James A. Owen

  Simple, People, Evil

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• On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.

  Eric Carle

  Night, Ice Cream, Cupcakes

  Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.19, Penguin

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• Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

  Douglas Coupland

  Years, Laughing, Email

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I always say that love is like the meat in a pie,” Freddy put in. “The crust is what people see—the practical things that hold a couple together. But love is the important part—without it you’ve got a meatless pie, and what’s the point of that?” “Why, Freddy,” Minerva said, “that was almost profound.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Couple, Love Is, People

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Wind, Magic, Use

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• ...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

  Alice Hoffman

  Afternoon, Village, October

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.5, Penguin Group

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• I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Cutting, Knives, Giving

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• I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Two, Trying, Six

  "Gwyneth Paltrow's Secrets to Healthy Eating and Her Rockin' Body". www.self.com. May 13, 2011.

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• We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moon, Men, Talking

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.220, Penguin

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• A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.

  Nick Harkaway

  Hot, Ephemeral, Cold

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• I've got my finger in a lot of pies.

  Johnny Vegas

  Fingers

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