Ina Garten

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688 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 27 Jan

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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus · Listen Again: Julia Gets Wise with Ina Garten · 27 Nov 2024 podcast

Maybe, I mean, that's kind of what you said, which I hadn't thought about. It's probably very true. Good for you. I love that. You know, one of the things that's happened to me over the past year is... A few years, I've been working on a memoir. I know. You do? And what was interesting to me is the threads through, I never look back, the threads that are so consistent.

And one of the things is taking risks. And what you're saying is really true, is how sure I was along the way of what I wanted at each kind of intersection.

It gave me a very different view of myself than I had, which was surprising. What was that? Characterize that. It gave me more confidence about who I am. I was very surprised at the consistency of things through my life. And I actually didn't realize it until I started writing. And it made me feel good.

Oh, thank you. Thank you. I mean, there are things I did in my 20s and I look back and I think, my God, I was like jumping off a cliff and I had no idea what was going to happen. Yeah. But I just kept doing it over and over again. And anyway, so that was surprising that I started doing it so early.

It pisses me off. Passive aggressive people. Number one on my list. People who tell you something so that you don't have the opportunity to change it. People that lie to you, basically, so that you do what they want you to do. That really makes me mad.

Right. Exactly. Yes, exactly. I think it's one of the things that you get to do when you're older is that when you're young, you think your relationships are going to go on forever. And as you get older, you realize sometimes they don't. Sometimes you have to choose your, your own happiness and, And as you said, excise people that are hurting you. Have you had to do that a lot?

Not a lot, but I've had to do it. It was painful.

Because, you know, I just, I hate hurting people. But if it's a relationship that is damaging at some point, you know, you try and fix it. You try and fix it again. You try and fix it again. Sometimes you just can't. And so you have to move on.

Really. Yeah. It is. It's a huge benefit. You just have to say, this isn't working. Right. This is making me unhappy, and I don't deserve to be unhappy. Get the fuck out of my house.

Yeah. Yeah. What draws you to other people? I think I like positive energy. I like people who are doing interesting things that really show up.

They don't come and expect to be entertained.

Do people do that with you? Do they try and tell you things that are funny to make you laugh?

Also because you play very humorous characters and you play them so brilliantly, they forget that it's a character you're playing. It's not necessarily Julia. Yeah.

Do you? You know, I think one of the things as we get older, Jeffrey and I are very conscious of, we're going to lose friends. And they're going to move to Florida or Tuscany or wherever they move. And it's important to stay connected to people. So we actually make an effort to meet new people just to make sure that we have a group of friends that we really care about. Do you travel with friends?

Yeah, we do. We actually spend a lot of time in Paris. So people come to Paris with us, which is just heaven. Oh, nice. Yeah. So maybe one of these days you and I should go to Paris together. We'd have a good time. Go to the markets and get chicken and carrots and cook in my Paris kitchen. Exactly. That would be very good. It'd be really fun. Do you speak French? Badly.

Enough so I can converse with the grocer and the butcher. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can get around. That's good. I wouldn't want to interest the U.N. Right. Exactly.

Yeah.

Exactly.

My French has gotten me a lot of trouble along the way, actually. Like? When we first had this apartment, I went to the hairdresser. And she said, in French, which I understood, would you like it straight or curly? And I thought, oh, what the hell? It's Paris. Let's make it curly. So she gave me this curly hairdo.

And I wanted to say to her, when my husband sees me, he's going to say, kiss me quick before my wife gets here. So I said, Dites-moi mon mari dit... And she looked at me in horror, absolute horror, and I had no idea what I had said. So that night I went out with some friends who speak perfect French, and I told them what I said, and he started to laugh. And he said, And what you said was, Yeah.

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