Eric Powell Quotes in Julie & Julia (2009)
Eric Powell Quotes:
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Julie Powell: [listening to messages on her answering machine] Eric, I'm going to be a writer!
Eric Powell: [correcting her] You ARE a writer.
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Eric Powell: Hey.
Julie Powell: Are you back? Please be back.
Eric Powell: [smiles] What's for dinner?
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Eric Powell: [about Julia] Look, there's something wrong with her if she doesn't get what you're doing.
Julie Powell: There's nothing wrong with her. Nothing. I spent a year with her. She's perfect.
Eric Powell: The Julia Child in your head is perfect. The Julia Child that doesn't understand what you're doing is not perfect. The one in your head is the one that matters.
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Eric Powell: On the bright side, more stew for us.
Julie Powell: Just for once, could you not look on the bright side?
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Julie Powell: [about Julia Child] She saved me.
Eric Powell: You saved yourself.
Julie Powell: I was drowning and she pulled me out of the ocean.
Eric Powell: Don't get carried away.
[Julie smiles]
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Julie Powell: She changed everything. Before her, it was frozen food and can openers and marshmallows.
Eric Powell: Don't knock marshmallows.
[Julie smiles]
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Sarah: [voiceover, blogging] Yesterday, I poached an egg. It seemed like the perfect thing to do on perhaps the second worst workday in recorded history.
Sarah: Explain to me how you've never eaten an egg in your whole life ?
Julie Powell: I've had eggs in, like, cakes, never had an "egg" egg. I was a very willful child. It's simmering.
[voiceover, blogging]
Julie Powell: I had this notion, God knows why, that poaching eggs would be simple.
[Julie breaks an egg]
Julie Powell: But I was deeply wrong.
Sarah: [Sarah read the cookbook] "Immediately and gently push the while over the yolk with a wooden spoon for two or three seconds." Immediately.
Julie Powell: [Julia stirs but without success] Yurk, disgusting!
Sarah: Oh, maybe the eggs aren't fresh. Julia says the eggs have to be fresh.
Julie Powell: They are fresh.
Sarah: Okay, You don't have to bite my head off. I'm just quoting Julia.
Julie Powell: [voiceover, blogging] It took three of us, crammed into the kitchen over a pot of simmering water, but, enventually, we nailed it.
Sarah: Hello
Julie Powell: Welcome.
Eric Powell: How cute is that ?
-- Eric Powell
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