Nora Ephron Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

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  News, Television, Journalism

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.293, Vintage

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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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• Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

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  Feminism, Consciousness, Illusion

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.97, Vintage

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• I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.

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  Hurt, Two, Feminist

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.135, Vintage

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• [Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

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  Meaningful, Educational, College

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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• What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

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  Sex, Mystery, Liberation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

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  Women, Food, Memorable

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

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• Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

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  Men, Trouble, Response

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.46, Vintage

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• I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.

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  Laughing, Looks, Lasts

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• Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!

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  Mean, Army, Gun

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news - did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? - has a kind of fun appeal.

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  Morning, Fun, Believe

  "Everything is copy". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2007.

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• people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.

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  New Orleans, Cities, People

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.301, Vintage

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• [On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation.

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  Vacation, President, Vices

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• Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is first lady. I'd be willing to run for that. 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, Jobs, Real

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• Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

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  Mean, Getting Older, Legs

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• I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

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  Typewriters, Bangs, Form

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Wallflower at the Orgy”, p.12, Bantam

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• I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

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  Persistence, Years, Stills

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