Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes."
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Tomatoes
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Michael Lewis
Author, Journalist
"My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes."
Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy."
Kathleen Parker
Journalist
"If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup."
Julia Child
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot."
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"There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie today where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing."
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"Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback."
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"if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t."
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