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Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?


Nigel Slater

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Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
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RACHEL GIBSON She was known for dinner parties and serving things in flamboyant ways.
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EDWARD FITZGERALD I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades part...
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SAM NEILL If you have an Ina Garten-level roasted-chicken recipe, it's a game changer. I bring that to din...
MEGHAN MARKLE I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.
RON SILVER It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and respon...
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OMAR KHAYYAM ("THE TENT-MAKER") I won’t be that girl who lets the guy treat her like crap and still fawns all over him.
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DUANE CHAPMAN Besides... I'm very old and I can't remember things too well anymore. When my letters come back to m...
INIO ASANO Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.
BILLY SUNDAY There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divo...
KARL LAGERFELD At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.
DONALD T. REGAN Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefo...
CEELO GREEN There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
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ZEPHYR MCINTYRE On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who...
SAINT PATRICK I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with M...
ERIC DICKERSON We shouldn't disgrace our constitution to forever deny the many lesbian and gay couples in Florida t...
KAREN DOERING As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play mu...
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BENITO MUSSOLINI There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverag...
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DAVID HERMAN And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
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QURAN Oh, God, the lovebirds,” Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. “I hate happy couples.
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NIGEL HAMILTON President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval g...
NIGEL HAMILTON In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I ...
NIGEL HAMILTON Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
NIGEL HAMILTON Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' pre...
NIGEL HAMILTON My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after t...
NIGEL HAMILTON It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned ...
NIGEL HAMILTON I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!
NIGEL HAMILTON Some of the History Channel's documentaries involve docudrama segments and are highly speculativ...
NIGEL HAMILTON Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency...
NIGEL HAMILTON Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation t...
NIGEL HAMILTON Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of driver...
NIGEL MANSELL To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of g...
NIGEL OWENS How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look...
NIGEL FARAGE The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.
NIGEL CUMBERLAND