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- Nov 07, 2020
Dinner Parties Quotes
Lines on hosting, gathering, and the meals that bring people together.
These Dinner parties quotes celebrate the unplanned, communal side of entertaining, from grocery-run menus to lifelong habits of feeding friends. They capture how a shared table becomes an excuse to gather.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing about my dinner parties - they're never planned. I go to the grocery store, and I buy whatever is on sale. I get a lot of it, and I just send out a mass text: 'I just bought food. Dinner's at 8. Text me if you're coming.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life has been a very communal experience; growing up in a house full of happy hippies, having dinner parties three days a week, and going to Christiania, I was constantly surrounded by people celebrating community. If you look at the films I've done, they all share that theme.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession - it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It's not good for the economy.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.
- Hanging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really love having dinner parties and hanging out.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake up in the morning and immediately think, 'Now what am I doing tonight?' Now I'd be more likely to reach for a book.
- Cindy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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- Nov 07, 2020