Life from Scratch (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Rachel Goldman: Divorcee, hurt and confused about life.
• Ethan Katz: Rachel's brillant brother who can't or won't keep a job but manages to keep her fridge cleaned out.
• Adam Goldman: Rachel's ex-husband
• Gael Paez: Add a description of this character.
• Arianna
• Penelope

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• “all the unhappiness in the world is tied to expectations, and if we could live without expectations, we'd live in a state of perpetual bliss because we'd always be happy with what we have.”

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• all the unhappiness in the world is tied to expectations, and if we could live without expectations, we'd live in a state of perpetual bliss because we'd always be happy with what we have.

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• “Well, that’s the problem with being scared to fail. You usually end up failing in the end by default, because you don’t grab what you want.

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• You can’t change someone else, cookie. You can only change yourself or the way it affects you. And if you can’t honestly change the way it affects you because you’re going with your natural reaction to his lack of contrition, you need to get yourself out of that relationship. You’re never going to be happy with who he is as a person, and shoving a square peg into a round hole has never had the good makings for stable furniture that will stand the test of time.

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• Perhaps nothing will happen, but anything could happen too. And lives need possibilities.

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• that there is no point in saving face if it makes you lose everything else. That you should stick your heart, raw and beating on the table and hope that the other person picks it up; and if they don't, deal with the consequences of having your heart outside your body rather than never letting it leave your chest. Sometimes the most messed up things can be fixed, but you only know if that's true if you try. Failure is a possibility if you’re trying hard enough.

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• Hell hath no fury like a woman once ignored, who is now receiving attention several years too late.

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• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote: “All things must change to something new, to something strange.”

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• “I need to stop thinking about what I need to do, and just do it.”

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• “You get what you get and you don’t get upset.” And that seems to be as good a philosophy as any to live by.

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• roast potatoes (the trick: put the cubed potatoes in a bag; splash in the olive oil, salt, rosemary, and garlic powder; and then shake to coat each potato evenly.)

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• New York

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Melissa Ford (Author)

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