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" 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. "
Nora Ephron
You
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that readers believe that a writer becomes friends with the people he interviews and writes about - and I think there are some writers who do that - but that hasn't happened to me. I do think it's dangerous because then you write the article to please them, which is a terrible error. "
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" What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. "
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" I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. "
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" 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. "
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Time
Hair
" 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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Child
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" At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin. "
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" I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food. "
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Insane
" All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?' "
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Long
Kitchen
" Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. "
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Admit
Always
" Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. "
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Believe
Denial
" 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. "
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Mistake
Feel
" If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. "
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Last
Pregnancy
" 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. "
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Want
" 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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Writing
" Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken. "
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Fried
Chicken
Good
" 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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Happen
Know
Mystery
" 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. "
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Kind
" As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. "
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People
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" 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. "
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" I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. "
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Try
Interesting
" Everything matches black, especially black. "
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" '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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" 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. "
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" I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think. "
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Gloves
Medical
" In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. "
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Fantasy
Nobody
" 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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Meaningless
Will
" 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. "
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