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Nora Ephron Quotes
Best Quotes by Nora Ephron (Top 10)
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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
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Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
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When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
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I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
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When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
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I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
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I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.
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More Nora Ephron Quotes
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So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?
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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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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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Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
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From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2. Journalists sometimes get things wrong. 3. Almost all books that are published as memoirs were initially written as novels, and then the agent/editor said, This might work better as a memoir. 6. Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
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When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
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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 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.
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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
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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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New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
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The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
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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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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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