Nora Ephron Quotes - Page 6

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• Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

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  Good Night, Book, Brave

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 05, 2013

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• The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with.

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  Girl, Believe, School

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• I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

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  Romantic, Hands, Movie Love

  "Fictional character: Sam Baldwin". "Sleepless in Seattle", www.imdb.com. June 25, 1993.

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• Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

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  Black

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• As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

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  Running, Men, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.

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  People, Events, Taste

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.321, Vintage

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• Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

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  Believe, Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

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  Want, Women Want, Ifs

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.18, Vintage

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• I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

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  New York, Home, Buying Things

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• Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

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  Would Be, Journalist, Screenwriters

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• Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.

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  Softball, Play, Legs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they've failed.

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  Mistake, Skills, People

  Nora Ephron (2015). “Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.57, Melville House

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• That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

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  Powerful, Journalism, Photograph

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble scribble: notes on the media”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's not out there.

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  Thinking, Games, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.

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  Women, Careers, Opinion

  Nora Ephron (2014). “The Most of Nora Ephron”, p.80, Random House

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• ... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

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  Dirty, Reading, People

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media”

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• I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

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  Children, Successful, Parent

  The Guardian, June 26, 1995.

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• I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

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  Age, Want, Aging

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• I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend

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  Believe, Book, Lunch

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 17, 2016

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• The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is sayingit is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.

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  Father, Believe, Thinking

  Nora Ephron (1984). “Crazy Salad Plus Nine”

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• Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

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  Movie, Women, Years

  "Nora Ephron (1941-2012): An appreciation" by Ty Burr, www.boston.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

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  Party, Dinner, Abstract

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Wallflower at the Orgy”, p.7, Bantam

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• in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

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  Country, Socialist Countries, Luxury

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.171, Vintage

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• The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

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  Party, Journalist, Has Beens

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jan 12, 2012

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• All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

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  Meg, Mail

  "Fictional character: Kathleen Kelly". "You've Got Mail", www.imdb.com. December 18, 1998.

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