Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephronwas an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth19 May 1941
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
looks young given
I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
falling-in-love holiday forget
What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?
romantic hands movie-love
I was just taking her hand to help her out of a cab. And it was like... magic.
wikipedia cases versions
You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
daughter mother being-yourself
We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.
parent nests empty
The empty nest is underrated.
funny-relationship men want
Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
feminism consciousness illusion
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.
notes copies
Take notes. Everything is copy.
romantic home hands
Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. - Sleepless in Seattle
vacation president matter
[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.
friendship important watches
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.
cities new-orleans people
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.
television-news journalism reason
There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.