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Nora Ephron Inspirational Quotes (105)

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I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
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There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.
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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
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Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.
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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.
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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.
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Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.
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I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
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Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
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The empty nest is underrated.
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Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
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Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.
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[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.
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No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
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My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, Everything is copy.
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'
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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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You can blame Al Gore and you can blame Ralph Nader and you can blame George Bush, but I blame Bill [Clinton]. I just do. I just think he squandered his presidency the night that woman delivered that pizza to him, and if he hadn't, we wouldn't be where we are and there would be a lot of people who are alive today who aren't.
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in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
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You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.
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We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.
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