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• Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult’s books.” “Oh, probably not all of them,” Wesley said. “Huh? Why not?” “She’s probably got another one done already. That’s all I meant.” “And James Patterson’s probably written one since he got up this morning!” she said, and went off chortling.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Book, Reading

  Stephen King (2015). “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fear, Appearance, Found

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.550, Pan Macmillan

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• Eric,” she said, “maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and we can go to a baby shower!” “That would be something to see,” said Eric

  Charlaine Harris

  Baby, Eric, Would Be

  Charlaine Harris (2008). “All Together Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beer, Complaining, Shrimp

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about.

  Warren Leight

  Growing Up, Eye, Writing

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• I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

  Jennie Garth

  Teacher, School, Secretary

  "Jennie Garth: 'When I Was 17'". www.seventeen.com. August 20, 2010.

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• I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.

  Suze Orman

  Stupid, College, Thinking

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• The waitress comes over to me like, 'What'chu readin' for?' I had never been asked that. Not 'What am I reading?' but 'What am I reading for?' Goddammit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a... waffle waitress.

  Bill Hicks

  Book, Reading, Waffles

  "Dangerous". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1990.

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• I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.

  David

  Coffee, Writing, Boys

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• I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, where is that vanilla from and what's up with that sunflower oil? Is it organic or not and how many pesticides?

  Michael Moss

  Thinking, Oil, Sunflower

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

  Frank Chodorov

  Widows, Lines, Pay

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.52, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Auditioning for television shows - to find a guy who has a lot of experience as a laborer is a bit of an anomaly. We do exist. I know several other actors who have made their living, instead of a waitress job, framing houses or blacktopping roads.

  Nick Offerman

  Jobs, House, Guy

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.

  Stephen Shore

  Bed, Meals, Toilets

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• If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Home, Wife, Cheerful

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• I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.

  Arnold Palmer

  Country, Spring, Golf

  "Arizona 20 Years: Arnold Palmer" by Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• ...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.

  Laura Lippman

  War, Gay, Boys

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• The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Acting, Ruins

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Morning, Pain

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• As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

  John Ridley

  Vegas, Coping Mechanisms, Hustle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy - girl - when I was younger and sold things at little fairs when I was younger. I mostly related the role to being a waitress and having to deal with customers. There are good people and some not-so-good people.

  Jess Weixler

  Girl, Jobs, People

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• I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.

  Tony D'Souza

  Morning, Long, Guy

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• I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

  Tracy Pollan

  People, Ashes, Tables

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• I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

  Todd Barry

  Mean, Errors, Logic

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• You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

  Emilia Clarke

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Alfie Allen & Emilia Clarke chat 'Game Of Thrones'". www.digitalspy.com. April 12, 2011.

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• When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.

  Lacey Chabert

  Growing Up, My Sister, Restaurants

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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