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" Quotes and Sayings About me

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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I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.

Course Except Go Just
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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.

AGoodThing Because Chef Cook
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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.

About Best Blame Confusion
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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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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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Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

Struggle gave Chance Demonstrate Strength
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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.

Life Value Gained Think
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It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'

Farewell Industry Just Kind
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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.

Person Responds emotionally Traditional
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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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If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

Balance Check Different Doctors
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No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

Want Paparazzi Following me Life
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Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.
I don't Read books Entertainment
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But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

Books Read Die
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When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

My parent Believe God Religion
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If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

Like something Great Discover
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I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Literature Life Reading script Prepared
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I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.
Social person Love World Feeling
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I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

Never wanted Anyone Use Family name
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I love women. My life revolves around them.
Around Life Love Revolves
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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.

Adding Bed Blue Bowl
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For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important.

Going Important Me Music
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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.

About Blame Butter Everyone
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To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

To sin Silence Protest Cowards
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I'm always willing to talk to somebody if they have something to say that is interesting.

Always Interesting Say Somebody
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We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Make banquets Pleasure Life
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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.

About Against Alive Anyone
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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.

Disposable Etc Fit Garlic
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Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything.
Before night Beautiful Happen
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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.

Actually Because Bigger Character
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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

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

Just go Street Run away
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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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It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.

Another Camera Expression Form
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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.

About Any Day Eat
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What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

Am Been Children Day
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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.

Amazing Been Before Building
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I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

Anger Been Brain Children
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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.

About Anger Because Better
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But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let’s get our priorities straight. I think we all know what’s really important in life? winning an Oscar.

I think Scheme Important
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You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.

You know Excuse Dress
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For me, one of the things that I get excited about is getting in situations I shouldn't be in.

About Excited Get Getting
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