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If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

— Jean Kerr Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

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