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" 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. "

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School

Recognition

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

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

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Neck

" 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. "

" '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. "

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Amazing

" 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. "

" When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and made some things I haven't made in a while, one being beef bourguignon, which to me is a hilariously 1960s dish that everyone felt they had to serve at a dinner party or they weren't a grown-up. "

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Back

Child

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Real

Result

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Food

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