Julie Powell
Julie Powell
Julie Powell, née Fosteris an American author best known for her book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, and a subsequent movie...
ProfessionBlogger
Date of Birth20 April 1973
CityAustin, TX
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I was painted into a corner. I was completely lost -- I didn't know what I was going to do. I wanted to learn to cook. ... It wasn't until the project was nearly done that I really understood that what I was trying to do was figuring out a new way of living and finding new experiences in life.
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It first appealed to me as a book rather than a cookbook. I was a real bookworm and it just seemed sort of mysterious and adult and slightly dangerous.
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I graduated from college with a major in fiction writing, and then I spent years and years and years just writing and not ever finishing anything and really falling into the black hole of self-loathing.
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She can curse right and she looks as though she's eaten French food before.
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She doesn't like to use a food processor.
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I clawed the stuff out bit by painful, pink bit, ... until my knife was sunk into the leg bone up past the hilt. It made dreadful scraping noises - I felt like I could feel it in the center of my bones. A passing metaphor to explorers of the deep wilds of Africa does not seem out of place here - there was a definite Heart of Darkness quality to this. How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones? It's the center of the center of things.
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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.
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There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.
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But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.
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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 iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.
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So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.
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The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
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Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.
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Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.