Kevin Bacon
Actor
"Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic."
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Diners
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Nipsey Russell
Comedian
"If you owe too much on American Express, and your Diner's Club notes are too hard, take a loan on your Visa, and pay it off with your MasterCard!"
Susan Cain
Author, Speaker
"You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers."
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking."
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning."
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"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate."
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"[Adrienne Shelly] explain exactly what she was looking for. This was her movie [Waitress].She also wrote the songs that I sing in it. She wrote everything. She chose the colour of our outfits; she designed the set of the diner. She was very, very involved at every level."
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"I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club."
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