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If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.Julie Powell
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Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy i Mac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.Julie Powell
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I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into a tailspin of self-loathing every time.' 'Unless you're a vegan.' 'Uh-huh. But then you're a vegan and you don't count.Julie Powell
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But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the junk. The Dragonriders of Pern, Flowers in the Attic, The Clan of the Cave Bear. This stuff was like my stash of Playboys under the mattress.Julie Powell
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Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.Julie Powell
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The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.Julie Powell
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Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.Julie Powell
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It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.Julie Powell