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Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative. ”
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. ”
I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. ”
I’m a firm believer in teaching children to manage risk. ”
When the decades pass and you're working in this business, the audiences get older with you. That's the nice part about it. They're so supportive and so loving. ”
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see. ”
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. ”
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? ”
In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top. ”
I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture. ”