"My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love."

-- Rachael Ray

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“We are at an inflection point in history.”

Source : "Radical Evolution". The Washington Post Article, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2006.
“Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.”
“The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.”
“. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death”
“Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.”
“Sometimes at night, when I wake up real late, I can hear my dad talking to God. He whispers, but I still hear him. I even hear him crying sometimes, when God says something sad.”
“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”
“Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.”

Source : Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.70, Hachette UK

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