I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called … - Julia Child

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I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena

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About Julia Child

Julia Child (August 15, 1912 - August 13, 2004), television chef and author.

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Native Name: Julia Carolyn Child
Alternative Names: Julia McWilliams Julia Carolyn McWilliams

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