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" I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The neck starts to go at 43, and that's that. "

" I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. "

" I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows. "

" I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60. "

" Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up. "

" In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. "

" I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food. "

" All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. "

" I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me. "

" If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. "

" Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them. "

" When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing - to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. - something's going to happen. Black, it's the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be 'the' dress. "

" 'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it. "

" Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. "

" As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. "

" You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. "

" My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else. "

" 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. "

" One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are. "

" 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. "

" One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with. "

" What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. "

" The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back. "

" What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. "