Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done rig… - Julia Child

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

And the great lesson embedded in the book is that no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook — try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.