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That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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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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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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…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.
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people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.
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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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Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
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The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
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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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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
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It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, Would you, If you had it to do over. It's not out there.
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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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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.
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If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.
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Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
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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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The hardest thing about writing is writing.
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The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
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I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.
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