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• God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Funny, God, Humorous

  "Screen: Angry-Young-Man Fairy Tale; 'Georgy Girl' Arrives at the Fine Arts Lynn Redgrave Stars in Tragicomic Film" by Michael Stern, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 1966.

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• Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

  Craig Ferguson

  Distance, Years, Long

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  The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Iron, Apples

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.255, Ballantine Books

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• I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

  Charles Dickens

  Humility, Appetite

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick papers”, p.143

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• There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

  Roald Dahl

  Weather, Apples, Giving

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.42, Penguin

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• Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Dream, Country

  "Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.

  David Bowie

  Fingers, I Can

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

  Michael Caine

  Mean, Class, Eels

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• I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.

  Jack White

  Boys, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.

  Dean Koontz

  True Friend, Fun, Sacrifice

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Seize the Night”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.

  Bernie Mac

  Hug, Pieces, Plenty

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• No man's pie is freed
  From his ambitious finger.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Men, Ambitious

  William Shakespeare (1808). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.202

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• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  E. W. Howe

  War, Food, Hero

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• My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.

  William of Norwich

  Mother, Food, Keys

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• The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Trying, Together, World

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• It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Humble, People

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• Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Independent, Player

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• There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Cooking, Cold

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• The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Horse, Three, Tables

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• Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.

  Eden Robinson

  Hate, Reading, Autumn

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

  Edgar Guest

  Giving Up, Winter, Doctors

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• You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

  Patti Smith

  World

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• All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

  Shannen Doherty

  Dog, Night, Ice Cream

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• I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie.

  Dov Davidoff

  Apples, Passionate, Patriot

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• I will take a pie in the face any time for a worthy cause.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Faces, Causes, Worthy

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