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“I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.”

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Author:John Corbett

“I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.”

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Author:Jack Dorsey

“Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.”

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Author:Carmen Electra

“I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.”

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Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.”

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Author:Charles Frazier

“I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.”

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Author:Sadie Frost

“Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.”

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Author:Brad Garrett

“I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.”

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Author:Louie Anderson

“Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.”

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Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

“When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.”

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Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

“In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?”

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Author:Noah Emmerich

“My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.”

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Author:Emilio Estevez

“When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.”

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Author:Shania Twain

“Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.”

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Author:Al Yankovic

“I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.”

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Author:Elton John

“Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.”

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Author:Mika Brzezinski

“Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.”

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Author:Jim Cantalupo

“On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.”

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Author:Michael Cunningham

“Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.”

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Author:Bruce Feiler

“I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.”

Author:John Frankenheimer

“I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.”

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Author:Prabal Gurung

“One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.”

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Author:Robert M. Gates

“My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.”

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Author:Carrie Ann Inaba

“I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.”

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Author:Andrea Jung

“Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.”

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Author:Boris Johnson

“My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.”

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Author:Christopher Judge

“I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.”

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Author:Nicole Krauss

“I think that we can often be eating and not even really acknowledging that we are putting something about our mouths. I think there is lot to be said about eating dinner and not having the distraction of the TV.”

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Author:Patsy Kensit

“Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.”

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Author:Bob Keeshan

“I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.”

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Author:Kathryn Minshew

“People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.”

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Author:David E. Kelley

“If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love.”

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Author:Khloe Kardashian

“I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.”

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Author:Marian Keyes

“I like my home to be somewhere where my friends can feel like they can put their feet up on the couch and for it to feel like really easy living. I really love to have my friends over, cook dinner for them, catch up, and spend quality time with quality people in my life.”

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Author:Stacy Keibler