"Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
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"I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.'"
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"The real cake isn't HAVING what you want, it's DOING what you want"
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"You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain"
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"There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy"
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"I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world."
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"I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap."
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"Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake."
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"By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too."
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"Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake."
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"At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake"."
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"Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it."
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"You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you."
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"I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars."
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"[... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that] whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both."
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"Donald Trump is going to make an announcement about running for President on the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice. Not to be outdone, the same night the Cake Boss will reveal his plan for overhauling Medicare."
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"It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project."
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"I grew up in Louisiana, a lot of carbohydrates, fried foods, all very good. Butter, lots of homemade cakes and cookies. Here I am in Los Angeles and just really educating myself about food. Once you know better, you do better."
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"Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this."
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"Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid."
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