Julia Davis quote: "In the end, though, if you don't find it funny, well, I do. Don't analyse the morals. The weird thing is that in real life I really want to be liked, but in art I don't care."

I didn't think about that until it was pointed out. But Abigail's Party is one of my favourite thing...
JULIA DAVIS

We needed somewhere seasidey for Cath to recuperate, and Ibiza was suggested, but that's not very Ca...
JULIA DAVIS

It's hard to get started. Hard because you want to lay on the couch and be lazy.
JULIA DAVIS

This decision is an important step in safeguarding civil rights of federal employees and holding age...
JULIA DAVIS

When I'm all done with cancer, I'm going to help the other people with cancer,
JULIA DAVIS

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write ab...
JULIA GLASS

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in ...
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

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you'...
JULIA CHILD

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

Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.
JULIA CHILD

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

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being a...
JULIA SWEENEY

I like to stay balanced in life, so I don't have to do some radical diet. I love my job, and I o...
JULIA STILES

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it i...
JULIA CAMERON

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn'...
JULIA CHILD

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.
JULIA ROBERTS

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this ag...
JULIA STILES

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.
JULIA LEIGH

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro...
JULIA GLASS

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my g...
JULIA ROBERTS

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love t...
JULIA CHILD

What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone proble...
JULIA CHILD

If you listen to the radio, it's all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There's...
JULIA MICHAELS

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that'...
JULIA ROBERTS

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.
JULIA ROBERTS

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay...
JULIA ROBERTS

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
JULIA ROBERTS

Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best w...
JULIA ROBERTS

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth ...
JULIA ROBERTS

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
JULIA ROBERTS

My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cook...
JULIA ROBERTS

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kind...
JULIA ROBERTS

Show me a mall, and I'm happy.
JULIA ROBERTS

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers co...
JULIA ROBERTS

My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
JULIA ROBERTS

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation fo...
JULIA ROBERTS

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of ...
JULIA ROBERTS

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've re...
JULIA ROBERTS

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
JULIA ROBERTS

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
JULIA ROBERTS

I'm single, and I think that by the time I met someone - if I were ever to meet the right person...
JULIA SAWALHA

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.
JULIA STILES

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.
JULIA MORGAN

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
JULIA MORGAN

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
JULIA MORGAN

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.
JULIA SAWALHA

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.
JULIA CHILD

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of ...
JULIA CHILD

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a love...
JULIA CHILD

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food pr...
JULIA CHILD

To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This a...
JULIA CHILD

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of ev...
JULIA CHILD

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a r...
JULIA CHILD

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and a...
JULIA CHILD

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afra...
JULIA CHILD

In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had a...
JULIA CHILD

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.
JULIA CHILD

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. ...
JULIA CHILD

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come i...
JULIA CHILD

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs...
JULIA CHILD

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season ...
JULIA CHILD

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your ...
JULIA CHILD

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who'...
JULIA CHILD

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
JULIA CHILD

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a wh...
JULIA CHILD

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he...
JULIA BARR

The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a b...
JULIA CHILD

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty s...
JULIA CAMERON

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pic...
JULIA CHILD

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet ...
JULIA QUINN

If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life
JULIA HOBAN

I need a Kleenex.” She sniffs.
Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his
...
JULIA HOBAN

Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you ...
JULIA ROBERTS

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learn...
JULIA CAMERON

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'go...
JULIA CAMERON

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made...
JULIA CAMERON

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always...
JULIA GLASS

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and ...
JULIA SWEENEY

I think with '10 Things I Hate About You,' I was an angsty teenager, and in some ways, I res...
JULIA STILES

Alan had loved her breakfast pastries best; Charlie craved her pies. He liked them true-blue America...
JULIA GLASS

I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you
JULIA HOBAN

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a c...
JULIA CAMERON

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularl...
JULIA LEIGH

In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters&...
JULIA GLASS

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

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By na...
JULIA GILLARD

I was successful and I enjoyed modeling, but it got to a point where I felt like I had 'been the...
JULIA VOTH

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader a...
JULIA ROBERTS

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to h...
JULIA SAWALHA

I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thi...
JULIA SAWALHA

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's ...
JULIA CHILD

I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always...
JULIA GLASS

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a...
RAUL JULIA

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage c...
JULIA STILES

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude ...
JULIA GLASS

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Be...
JULIA CAMERON

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
JULIA CHILD

Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't pa...
JULIA CHILD

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who ...
JULIA ROBERTS

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, ...
JULIA CHILD

I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I ...
JULIA ROBERTS

Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent ...
JULIA GLASS

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
JULIA CAMERON

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a...
JULIA SAWALHA

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now ...
JULIA SAWALHA

If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of...
JULIA GLASS

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
JULIA GLASS

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. So...
JULIA ROBERTS

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it...
JULIA CHILD

I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thi...
JULIA ROBERTS

I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I ...
JULIA VOTH

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - espe...
JULIA SAWALHA

Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pra...
JULIA CAMERON

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: you...
RAUL JULIA

True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you.
JULIA ROBERTS

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ord...
JULIA CAMERON

I’m not trying to impress you,” he replied, glancing up at the front of the room. “Gads,” he...
JULIA QUINN

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
JULIA STILES

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legit...
JULIA ROBERTS

In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cypr...
JULIA QUINN

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we ...
JULIA CHILD

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance clas...
JULIA STILES

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
JULIA CHILD

A party without cake is just a meeting
JULIA CHILD

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
JULIA CAMERON

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democ...
JULIA BACHA

I loved creating a series about the four Cabot sisters, who were not content to let their destinies ...
JULIA LONDON

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to a...
JULIA GLASS

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that'...
JULIA ROBERTS

Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cle...
JULIA GLASS

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.
JULIA SAWALHA

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.
JULIA SOUL

The King is dead! Long live the King!
JULIA PARDOE

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, mon...
JULIA CAMERON

We didn't know there was anything being built until today.
JULIA ALLEN

Most cheerleaders have knee problems. I had just gotten back from the doctor about two weeks before ...
JULIA ALLEN

The bodies were in such bad shape they said there was no other way.
JULIA ALLEN

He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation ...
JULIA ALLEN

It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It...
JULIA ALLEN

My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they k...
JULIA ALLEN

We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They...
JULIA ALLEN

I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to ...
JULIA CHILD

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.
JULIA QUINN

I turn on the radio. I'm a really big fan of old-fashioned dial radio. I love WNYC and NPR and a...
JULIA STILES

Some of the best projects I've worked on - 'Dexter,' the 'Bourne' series - were ...
JULIA STILES

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have...
JULIA ROBERTS

Oh, God, Francesca,Now there’s a good one.Why?Why? Why?” He gave each one a different tenor, as ...
JULIA QUINN

His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in w...
JULIA QUINN

The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, becau...
JULIA QUINN

(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.
JULIA CHILD

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their ha...
JULIA ROBERTS

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
JULIA CAMERON

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
JULIA CHILD

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someo...
JULIA CAMERON

There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W

Life itself is the proper binge.
JULIA CHILD

A fever is an expression of inner rage.
JULIA ROBERTS

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of...
JULIA GLASS

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and out...
JULIA CAMERON

I did hear the rumour and it was completely untrue,
JULIA GILLARD

I want to be in 'The Hobbit.' I love fantasy and mythical adventure films. I believe in fair...
JULIA SAWALHA

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in ...
JULIA STILES

One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taki...
JULIA JONES

That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are ...
JULIA ROBERTS

I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wante...
JULIA GLASS

It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go t...
JULIA SAWALHA

If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell t...
JULIA GREGSON

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for '...
JULIA ROBERTS

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of th...
JULIA GLASS

In the end, though, if you don't find it funny, well, I do. Don't analyse the morals. The weird thing is that in real life I really want to be liked, but in art I don't care.

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In the end, though, if you don't find it funny, well, I do. Don't analyse the morals. The weird thing is that in real life I really want to be liked, but in art I don't care.

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