Nora Ephron Quotes - Page 3

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• There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.

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  Exercise, Hair, Feminism

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• Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

  Nora Ephron

  Reading, Bliss, Better Person

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• And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.

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  Sweet, Holiday, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 22, 2012

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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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  Book, Way, Mail

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jan 02, 2012

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• The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

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  Hurt, Steps, Steps Forward

  "Nora Ephron’s Famous Talk At Wellesley’s Graduation". www.mindingthecampus.org. 1996.

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• Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

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  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2012.

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• In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

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  Clueless, Years, Facts

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Sep 19, 2015

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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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  People, Laughing, Bananas

  Nora Ephron (2008). “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman”, p.157, Random House

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• I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

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  People, Laughing, Movement

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• There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.

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  Ocean, Book, Oxygen

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• Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'

  Nora Ephron

  Writing, Boys, Directors

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

  Nora Ephron

  Inspirational, Baby, Pregnancy

  Heartburn ch. 4 (1983)

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• It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?

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  Dream, Men, Years

  "After the Love Is Gone" by Nora Ephron, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2005.

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• No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

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  Sex, Men, Stories

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• In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

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  Cute, Sex, Erotic

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.25, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Reading, Reality, Opposites

  Nora Ephron (2008). “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman”, p.84, Random House

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• I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

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  Writing, Thinking, Paper

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• When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle

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  Mean, Fate, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 10, 2013

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• You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

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  Wikipedia, Cases, Versions

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• Vera said: 'Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?' So I told her why: Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.

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  Hurt, Sorry, Laughing

  "Heartburn". Book by Nora Ephron, 1983.

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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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  Mom, Mother, Tragedy

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Oct 30, 2011

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• That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

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  Love You, Want, Problem

  "Fictional character: Becky". "Sleepless in Seattle", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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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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  Baby, Dust, Different

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.158, Vintage

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• Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.

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  Play, People, Roles

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

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  Children, Health, Important

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