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Chocolates Quotes
On comfort, memory, and small everyday joys.
Chocolates appear here as more than a treat: one quote calls a film 'a lunchbox of chocolates,' celebrating it as an unexpected Blessing, while another recalls surviving on toasted sandwiches, chocolates, and soup during leaner times.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Lunchbox' has been a blessing - all gift-wrapped and tied with a bow. Life is a lunchbox of chocolates now!
- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go up to guys. I'm all about a guy sending me flowers, getting me chocolates and surprising me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Valentine's Day, I pretend I don't care. Like many of us, I say I don't want the flowers or chocolates or a homemade card. How cheesy. I pretend that it's over-the-top to want the person you like to make you a ridiculously nice dinner, or do some showy gesture, ala John Cusack with the boombox in 'Say Anything.'
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- Nov 07, 2020