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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.

Life Possible Realize Rest
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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.

Banana Become Hero Joke
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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.

Again Could Death Everywhere
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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.

Come Done Few Force
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Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.
Actually Been Believe Denial
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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.

Breathing Certain CertainPoint Cooking
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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.

Even Every Find Fresh
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Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

After Best Directing Great
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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 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'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.

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

Before City Grew Important
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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 have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

Always Easier Fist How
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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Actually feel Stories Brain
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Feeling Science fiction Connected Real world
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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Explicit Social problems Prejudged
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I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world

Fantasy Complete break Situation
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Mother Interestingly enough Feminist Mind
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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Future Logical Science fiction
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People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

People Messy Mutable Combining differently
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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier

Boil down Parenting Autism
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Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

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Motivation is the power behind plot.
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Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Fantasy Past defenses
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One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

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No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

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Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

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So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends.

Odd Women Technological knowledge Mothers
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There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.

Sports Growing up Loved Race
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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.

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

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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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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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Just go up to somebody on the street and say “You’re it!” and just run away.

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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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I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon.

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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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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

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When I go hiking and I get over the hill, That means I am past the hard part and there is a snack in my future. That’s a good thing as far as I am concerned.

Go hiking Means Snack Future
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I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food.
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