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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does. "

" 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. "

" Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things. "

" 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. "