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• My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.

  Drew Carey

  Nice, Fans, Normal

  Interview with Mary Buckheit, proxy.espn.com. September 9, 2002.

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• I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Ducks, White

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• Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

  Sloane Crosley

  Two, Jumping, Cooking

  "I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living". Interview with Eric Klinenberg, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

  Sloane Crosley

  Morning, Mean, Creating

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• My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

  DMX

  Mom, Clothes, Three

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• I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

  Lena Dunham

  Animal, Thinking, Breakfast

  "Lena Dunham: from YouTube sensation to film and TV stardom". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2012.

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• I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

  Paloma Faith

  Next, Excited, Type

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• I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

  Paloma Faith

  Scotch, Eggs, Tin

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

  Paloma Faith

  Home, Night, Men

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Silly, Kind, Embarrassing

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• My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Good Night, Goodnight, Ideas

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• Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

  Ina Garten

  Comfort, Tomatoes, Soup

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• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  Ina Garten

  Party, Coffee, Home

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• If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

  Ina Garten

  Sweet, Fun, Party

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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• If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.

  Ryan Gosling

  Romantic, Girl, Funny Love

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• Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal to buy a ticket for a live entertainment, get a baby-sitter and pay for the meal, the parking, whatever.

  Kathy Griffin

  Baby, Thinking, Entertainment

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• Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Important, Breakfast, Hearty

  "Mayer Hawthorne Plays the Artists Den, Los Angeles". Interview with Ruthie Abel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I cook all my meals at home.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Home, Cooks

  "Jennifer Hudson's Incredible Weight Loss". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February 10, 2011.

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• Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.

  Hugh Jackman

  Twists, Breakfast, Pancakes

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• If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Average, Two, Female

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• You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

  Magic Johnson

  Hug, Aids Day, Hiv Aids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Drs, World

  "Toby Jones: ' So Robert de Niro booked us a table at El Bulli'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Kings, Three, Frozen

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• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  Gary Oldman

  Morning, Sunday, Eggs

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

  Rachael Ray

  Space, Fake, Desire

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