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Julia Child

Julia Child

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Birthday August 15, 1912

Birthplace Pasadena, California, United States

Death August 13, 2004

Manner of Death Natural Causes

Educated At Smith College

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Cook, Writer

Spouse Paul Cushing Child

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Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

— Julia Child, Backstage with Julia: My Years with Julia Child

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At five-forty-five in the morning, Paul and I rousted ourselves from our warm bunk and peered out of the small porthole in our cabin aboard the SS America.

— Julia Child, My Life in France

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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

— Edith Sitwell, Reader's Digest Vol. 111, No. 666

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It is better to burn than to disappear.

— Albert Camus, The Stranger

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I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

— Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury’s Practical and Inspiring Writing Advice

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Living Scripture: Reproducible Lectionary-Based Reflections on Sunday Scriptures: Year C (Cycle C)

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But I would never kiss anyone who doesn’t burn me like the sun.

— Jens Lekman, And I Remember Every Kiss (Night Falls Over Kortedala)

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Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines – it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

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All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

— David Cronenberg, Downstage Dead: A Jean-Claude Keyes Mystery

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Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story.

— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

— Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury Uncensored! the Unauthorized Biography

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What prompts us to action is desire; and desire has three forms—appetite, passion, wish.

— Aristotle, Magna Moralia

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What kind of writer am I? With all this love and no words for it?

— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction.

— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (Routledge Classics) (Volume 101)

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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

— Marcel Proust, Les Plaisirs et les Jours

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I think that whatever I do is my business. I do it because if I don’t I’m finished. I’m selfish: I do it for myself to save what is left of myself.

— Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

— Gary Oldman, Gary Oldman

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To play a wrong note is insignificant;
to play without passion is inexcusable.

— Beethoven, A quote by Ludwig van Beethoven

Passion Music Mistakes

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People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

— Rainbow Rowell, Rainbow Rowell Quote

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That’s why I like you so much. Your heart isn’t dead.

— Albert Camus, Caligula and Other Plays: Caligula; Cross Purpose; The Just; The Possessed (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Besides, it doesn’t matter if it’s real. It never does with dreams. They aren’t anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don’t drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone’s hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

— Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

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We love in another’s soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

— Irving Layton, The Whole Bloody Bird

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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you.

— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

— Ellen Degeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding

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