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Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

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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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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 grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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?'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 19th, 1941

Died: June 26th, 2012

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