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Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with … Read more
My first movie was ‘Diner.’ My second movie was ‘Tender Mercies.’ I did really good work. Ellen Barkin
In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around. Elizabeth Hurley
One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn’t had the money. Fran Lebowitz
My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school. Flavor Flav
The person who’s receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play… There’s no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it’s being done. It’s emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the … Read more
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to’the present’. Douglas Coupland
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they’re still getting real food. Douglas Coupland
The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it’s just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don’t really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known – I don’t even know what … Read more
If you go to a diner in the middle of America, people are having these conversations, but our politicians are too scared to bring it up because they’re worried about offending the 0.002 percent of the country that may somehow be subject to what the conversation may be. And it’s ridiculous. Donald Trump, Jr.