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
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The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat
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I think what's unexpected is that you keep reading it will happen and hearing it will happen, and then when it happens you find yourself genuinely thrilled on behalf of women.
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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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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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Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
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Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.
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I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays...
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What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.
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And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
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Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
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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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Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?
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Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep from just looking just a little older. You're just constantly putting stuff on your face and having things removed from yourself and opening up copies of "Vogue" so that you can find new ways to throw whatever money you've managed to save into the arms of some doctor who has just come up with a new way of lasering your face that feels like electroshock and all these things.
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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.