Julia Child Quotes

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• The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
• Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
• I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a…
• Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can…
• Life itself is the proper binge.
• Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane…
• Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air…
• It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
• In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no…
• In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
• I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
• In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
• I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.
• You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to…
• As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a…
• When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those…
• I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.
• I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I…
• 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,…
• I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

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