Ted Williams
Baseball Player
"God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own."
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Plates
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Hugh Grant
Actor
"I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look."
Douglas Adams
Writer, Humorist
"Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food."
Steven Morrissey
Singer-Songwriter
"Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate."
Patti Smith
Musician
"I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates."
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"The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company."
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"Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate."
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