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“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
― Julia Child

“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”
― Julia Child

“If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
― Julia Child

“Life itself is the proper binge.”
― Julia Child

“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.”
― Julia Child

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
― Julia Child

“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”
― Julia Child

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

“Fat gives things flavor.”
― Julia Child

“You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
― Harriet Van Horne

“...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“Bon Appétit”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.”
― Julia Child

“Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again”
― Julia Child, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking

“...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”
― Julia Child

“There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!”
― Julia Child, My Life in France