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I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.
Robert Osborne
2.
Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring.
Marco Pierre White
3.
To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.
David Chang
4.
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
Conrad Hall
6.
If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?
Marian Burros
7.
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
Simeon Strunsky
8.
You might be a redneck if...Your only condiment on the dining room table is the economy size bottle of ketchup.
Jeff Foxworthy
9.
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
Hector Hugh Munro
10.
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.
Benjamin Disraeli
12.
Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.
Rene Redzepi
13.
I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.
Michael Bloomberg
14.
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
Amanda Pays
15.
People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.
Michael S. Smith
16.
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.
Lewis Carroll
17.
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Daley Thompson
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Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.
John Hench
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I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.
Gordon Ramsay
20.
Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.
Jeff Smith
22.
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.
Malcolm X
23.
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
Paul Lynde
24.
When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.
Ferran Adria
25.
I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
Nate Berkus
26.
Nurturing and fulfilling, Marsala is a natural fit for the kitchen and dining room – making it ideal for tabletop, small appliances, and linens throughout the home.
Leatrice Eiseman
27.
The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can
Ashleigh Brilliant
28.
I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach.
W. C. Fields
29.
The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.
Joe Bastianich
31.
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.
J. K. Rowling
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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
Agatha Christie
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I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know - veggies, fruit and salad - then when I get home I'll have something else.
Ariana Grande
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We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.
Ferran Adria
35.
I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.
Philippa Ballantine
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Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.
Alan Kotok
39.
It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?
Cassandra Clare
40.
The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
Robert Jordan
41.
Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.
Marilyn vos Savant
42.
Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
Candice Olson
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The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.
Winston Churchill
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
P. J. O'Rourke
45.
In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.
Bryan Batt
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I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.
Cat Deeley
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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.
Eric Ripert
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Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the dining hall. It was probably the first restaurant to do so. The dining scene became more casual. All these cooking shows have transformed our profession one-hundred percent.
Wolfgang Puck
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson