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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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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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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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

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

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

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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.

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

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

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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 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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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.

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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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