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

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

" At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin. "

" I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right. "

" 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. "

" Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. "

" My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. "

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

" When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. "

" I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period. "

" In California, of course, they never break up couples at dinner for fear of what might happen if someone's husband were seated next to someone else's very young girlfriend. But dinners with couples seated next to one another are always deadly dull, which is why there are almost no good dinner parties in the entire state of California. "

" 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. "

" When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke. "

" Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. "

" I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think. "

" Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful. "

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

" The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs. "

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

" Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. "

" With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. "

" The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't. "

" Everything matches black, especially black. "

" I think when you get older, things come along that you know are a test in some way of your ability to stay with it. And when e-mail came along, I was just going to fall in love with it. And I did. I can't believe it now - it's like one of those ex-husbands that you think, 'What was I thinking?' "

" I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French. "

" We're saved somewhat by Google. You can - when you're all sitting around the table desperately snapping your fingers in the hopes of remembering the name of that movie that you can't remember the name of - you can make people think that you are not as old as you actually are because you have the technology to find the answer. "

" 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. "