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My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. Jacques Pepin

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When I didn't become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the 'struggle' period and became negative. Arfi Lamba

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Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember. Dinaw Mengestu

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. Gail Simmons

Me Patience Cooking Something Came Quintessential Skill Naturally

New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most. Graydon Carter

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War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. Gustav Heinemann

War Man Peace Generation School Ourselves My Generation Emergency Rather Days Himself Learned Prove Quintessential Which

If astrology is real, I guess I'm a pretty quintessential Virgo. Ian Harding

Virgo Guess Astrology Pretty Real Quintessential

I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies. Jane Green

Natural Mother Thought Babies Earth Would Would-Be Adore Never Had Always Quintessential Children Newborn Interested Really

To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in or be accepted. Marshall Allman

I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die. Maurizio Cattelan

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When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe. Rachel Roy

Cringe Pictures Look Quintessential Younger

'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. Sara Shepard

Family Walls Castle Glass Quintessential Dysfunctional

The 'Next Generation' and 'Voyager' are about even; I think 'Voyager' is mildly superior, although Picard is the quintessential captain. Stacey Abrams

Generation Superior Think About Although Quintessential Next Next Generation Captain Even

It is unlike the quintessential thriller where someone is up to something and the audience is speculating. 'Johnny Gaddaar' is the opposite of a thriller. In this case, the audience knows right from the outset what transpires and who the likely culprit is. It is a suspense caper. Sriram Raghavan

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