I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.


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JULIA GILLARD
That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are ear...
JULIA GLASS
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. Al...
JULIA GLASS
I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect....
JULIA MICHAELS
When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you ...
JULIA ROBERTS
I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Pet...
JULIA GILLARD
When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But yo...
JULIA MICHAELS
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.
JULIA GLASS
I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for...
JULIA STILES
From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flas...
JULIA LARNED
I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look ...
JULIA ROBERTS
We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespear...
JULIA STILES
when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insig...
JULIA GREGSON
Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.
JULIA WOODRUFF
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork ...
JULIA GLASS
Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.
JULIA QUINN
I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my li...
JULIA QUINN
She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put y...
JULIA GREGSON
It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.
JULIA FIERRO
There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not ...
JULIA QUINN
I bought you something" Willows blurts out.
"You bought...What?"
Willow closes her eyes fo...
JULIA HOBAN
The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often th...
JULIA KAVANAGH
Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
JULIA PHILLIPS
I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes of...
JULIA ROBERTS
In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally ...
JULIA CAMERON
If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.
JULIA SOUL
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum
JULIA CAMERON
What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read th...
JULIA ROBERTS
What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read t...
JULIA ROBERTS
And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.
JULIA QUINN
If you go, then I'll miss you.. terribly
JULIA HOBAN