"Maybe I needed to make like a potato,……" — Julie Powell

"Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple."

— Julie Powell

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17 Quotes by Julie Powell

Julie Powell has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you…
It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so…
Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.
Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.
The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in…
So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking…
Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get…
But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.
There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for…
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes…
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the…

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