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
achievement concrete dutch major movement treat
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat
behalf genuinely happen happens hearing reading thrilled unexpected
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.
moments cinematic our-lives
Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.
opening-up doctors trying
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.
divorce forever comes-and-goes
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
clueless years facts
In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
divorce long important
The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me.And now it's not.
divorce way
The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.
mistake skills people
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.
typewriters bangs form
I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.
would-be journalist screenwriters
Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.
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).
parent nests empty
The empty nest is underrated.