"I admired the English immensely for all that……" — Julia Child
"I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena"
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168 Quotes by Julia Child
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I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
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