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(insulting Julia) "Is it true that you plan to teach Americans to cook? I must tell you that you have no real talent for cooking but the Americans will never know the difference."
- Cooking School Owner,
Julie & Julia
(typing a page for her cookbook) "By the way, do you know if you don't dry meat it will never brown properly?"
- Julia Child,
Julie & Julia
(writing her book about the cooking class in Paris) "I am way ahead of the others in this class, all men! All of them very unfriendly until they discovered that I was fearless, something I realized about the same time they did."
- Julia Child,
Julie & Julia
(writing her book) "Shopping for food is much harder than buying a dress, especially if you are from the country like I am, nothing comes in my size."
- Julia Child,
Julie & Julia
(on her TV show, as she pulls some cannelloni out of a pot of boiling water, she cries out:) "These things are as hot as a stiff cock."
- Julia Child,
Julie & Julia
(talking about cooking with butter) "Is there anything better than butter? Think it over, any time you taste something that's delicious beyond imagining and you say 'what's in this?' the answer is always going to be butter. The day there is a meteorite rushing toward Earth and we have thirty days to live, I am going to spend it eating butter. Here is my final word on the subject, you can never have too much butter."
- Julie Powell,
Julie & Julia
(telling her husband, Eric, what she loves about cooking) "Chocolate cream pie! You know what I love about cooking? I love that after a day when nothing is sure and when I say nothing, I mean nothing. You can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. That's such a comfort."
- Julie Powell,
Julie & Julia
(discussing plans for her blog with Eric Powell) "I'll cook my way through the Julia Child cook book and write a blog about it. I'll probably need a deadline otherwise it will be like everything else I do. Let's face it, I never finish anything."
- Julie Powell,
Julie & Julia
(when asked if she thought Julia Child knew about her and her blog) "I wish! I have this fantasy that she comes for dinner and I show her my new lemon zester. We become very close. The truth is, no one knows about me. I feel like I'm just sending things into this giant void."
- Julie Powell,
Julie & Julia
(pepping up his wife, Julia, as she is despondant over not being able to get her book published) "Someone is going to publish your book. Someone is going to read your book and realize what you've done because your book is amazing. Your book is a work of genius. Your book is going to change the world. Do you hear me?"
- Paul Child,
Julie & Julia