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"50 Nora Ephron Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 19 May 1941. Died: 26 June 2012 | Journalist | Writer | Filmmaker |

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Admit Always Crazy Fine
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Book Chapters Cut Last
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Bachelors Cool Like Never
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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
Buying Get GetMarried Gourmet
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My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

About Basically Believed Cook
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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Comic Day Life Mother
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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.
About Believed Cooking Else
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Ever Fantasy Loves Me
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The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Again Almost Basic Believe
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Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Beware Cry Feelings Men
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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Actually Complicated Interesting Parts
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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.

After Frankly Great Happen
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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date

AsFarAs Concerned Date Even
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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Am Continually Controversial Difficulty
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech

Acceptance Also Care Don'tCare
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With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Adolescence Any Child Desperate
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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Life Possible Realize Rest
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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. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

Banana Become Hero Joke
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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.

Again Could Death Everywhere
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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.

Come Done Few Force
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Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.
Actually Been Believe Denial
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Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

Breathing Certain CertainPoint Cooking
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Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.

Even Every Find Fresh
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Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

After Best Directing Great
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I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.

Course Except Go Just
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I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.
Age Always Am Being
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I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.

AGoodThing Because Chef Cook
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Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

Before City Grew Important
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One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

About Best Blame Confusion
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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

Always Easier Fist How
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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Above Heroine Life Victim
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Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.

Adding Bed Blue Bowl
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I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French.

About Blame Butter Everyone
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I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

California Fantastic Food Grew
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I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things.

About Against Alive Anyone
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The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does.

Certainly Does Food Major
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Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.

Buy Chicken Ever Everyone
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I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.

Disposable Etc Fit Garlic
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Food was supposed to be a slightly bigger part of 'Heartburn,' and it actually didn't turn out to be because of me. I just didn't find a way to make it a bigger part of the movie as I should have, and we cut several scenes in which food was a major character.

Actually Because Bigger Character
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If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.

Book Child Grown Grown-Up
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Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.

Anyone Avoiding Bad Believe
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All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'

About Enough Food IWrite
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I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food.
Bad Feel Food IFeel
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I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I'm just a food person.

Am Bowl Chili Drive
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I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

About Any Day Eat
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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34.

Anyone Bikini Entire Go
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Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Amazing Been Before Building
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I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

Anger Been Brain Children
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One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

About Anger Because Better
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The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.
Back Best Children Divorce
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Nora Ephron Quotes & Sayings