"In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be."
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"Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody."
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"We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was."
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"I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy."
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"I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded."
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"My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing."
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"Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner."
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"The most intense thing I’ve ever done was bring a girl to Passover dinner."
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"When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day."
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"One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'"
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"Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do."
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"I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see Tommy when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it."
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"At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage."
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"The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served."
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"We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner."
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"I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife."
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"I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me."
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"I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal."
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"I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever."
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"When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that."
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