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" Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. "
Heroine
Life
Victim
" All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?' "
Enough
Long
Kitchen
" As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. "
Dating
People
President
" At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin. "
Your
Will
Age
" Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. "
Cry
Feelings
Men
" Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be. "
You
Turn
People
" Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. "
Way
Believe
Denial
" Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job. "
Job
Say
I Can
" E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know. "
Short
People
Friends
" Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself. "
Find
You
Yourself
" Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake. "
People
Mistake
Feel
" Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken. "
Fried
Chicken
Good
" Everything matches black, especially black. "
Everything
Matches
Black
" Food was supposed to be a slightly bigger part of 'Heartburn,' and it actually didn't turn out to be because of me. I just didn't find a way to make it a bigger part of the movie as I should have, and we cut several scenes in which food was a major character. "
Turn
Me
Food
" Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live 20 more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? "
Live
Short
Life
" I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. "
People
Difficulty
I Am
" I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I'm just a food person. "
Drive
I Am
Kind
" I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends. "
Friends
Failure
Work
" I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. "
Writing
You
Acceptance
" I don't have writer's block, really. I do have times when I can't get the lead, and that is the only part of the story which I have serious trouble with. I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. "
Serious
Story
View
" I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. "
Worth
Think
Day
" I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs. "
Thought
Think
My Life
" I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food. "
Feel
Bad
Insane
" If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it. "
Child
You
Thank You
" If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. "
Two
Last
Pregnancy
" I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don't do anything. I just sort of have lunch - all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece. "
Great
Day
Work
" I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California. "
California
Grew
Food
" I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?' "
People
Laugh
Thought
" I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to. "
Time
Know
Remember
" I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain. "
Anger
Brain
Divorce
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