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• Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Speech, Fancy

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Opportunity, Rare Occasion

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. Seotember 11, 2010.

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• My mom's chicken, with rice and gravy was my favorite dish as a kid, and it still is now. That's my favorite meal from her or from anybody. It's a family favorite.

  Serena Williams

  Mom, Kids, Meals

  Source: www.bonappetit.com

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• The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t exist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark, godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days run together like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. You never really know where you are or what time it is, and the outside world starts to fade away. It’s cool.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Running, Jobs, Dark

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.198, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

  Clive James

  Soup, Stones, Classic

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Mushrooms, Two

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• I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.

  Elvis Presley

  Country, Grease, Pork

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• This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

  James Thurber

  Ambition, Feet, Slave

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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• And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sweaters, Alive, Carolina

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

  Gene Simmons

  Thinking, Growth, Biscuits

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• You know, [skin] happens at the gravy boat stage - right? - or this happens when you're trying to keep it warm. So the way that I avoid this is I keep my gravy - the second it's done, I put it in a thermos, which will keep it hot and will prevent air from getting to the surface. And I keep it there till the last moment. The last thing that goes out to the table is the gravy, and I pour it out of the thermos and immediately move it in.

  Alton Brown

  Moving, Air, Skins

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.

  Lorrie Moore

  Real, Mistake, Taken

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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• Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.

  Billy Campbell

  Wells, Written, Well Written

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE ROCKETEER 20th Anniversary Blu-ray and Season Finale of THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 31, 2011.

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• You need to either create a slurry in a cold liquid, which also works with cornstarch, or you've got to do your gravy in a very wide pan and kind of scatter the flour over the top and then very quickly whisk it in.

  Alton Brown

  Needs, Liquid, Cold

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.

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• There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.

  Rosita Forbes

  Food, Sheep, Monsters

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

  Dorothy Allison

  Couple, Memories, Water

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• I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

  Davy Jones

  Glasses, Hair, Cold

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• Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Done, Good Work, Doing Good

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

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• Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best---a whole greater than the sum of it's parts.

  Alan Brennert

  Believe, Thinking, America

  Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.430, Macmillan

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• I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Successful, Thinking, Self

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• Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Dark, Night

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.172, Bantam

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• Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone. On some basic level you must enjoy the act of doing it ... Otherwise, you are going to end up frustrated and unhappy. Recognition in the arts is luck and gravy.

  Joan Rivers

  Art, Disappointment, Air

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• There are a couple of different types of food I eat a lot. I was raised in the South, in Tennessee, so I’m going to go with comfort food, soul food. I would probably start with collard greens and candied baby carrots and then have some biscuits and white gravy - and for dessert, probably blackberry cobbler.

  Megan Fox

  Baby, Couple, White

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness.

  Marlo Morgan

  Nice, Insecurity, Mutants

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• It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Thanksgiving, Daughter, Mother

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