Nora Ephron Quotes
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~ Nora Ephron Quote
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.
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It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again
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Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
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I always read the last page of a book first, so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
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To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
~ Nora Ephron Quote
Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it
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A successful parent is one who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.
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New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States.
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters.
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There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience.
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The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat.
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My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
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I think what's unexpected is that you keep reading it will happen and hearing it will happen, and then when it happens you find yourself genuinely thrilled on behalf of women.
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The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.
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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
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When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.
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Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny — and the last surviving member of the Donner party.
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
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