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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Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny and the last surviving member of the Donner party.
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters
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The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.
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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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Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.
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One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!
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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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The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.
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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
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Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.
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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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The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.
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Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.
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Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.