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You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

Toby Young

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If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.

Simon Bird

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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Barbara Walters

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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

Craig Brown

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I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

Ted Allen

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Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

Ted Allen

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I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.

Brenda Russell

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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

Naomi Wolf

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I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

Hugh Jackman

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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Benjamin Franklin

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I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.

Scarlett Johansson

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I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

Ina Garten

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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

Anne Lamott

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I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.

Melissa Rivers

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If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.

Conrad Anker

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I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner.

Gilbert Gottfried

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Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

Laurene Powell Jobs

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