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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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One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.
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Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!
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[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation on some level, the president is always on vacation.
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I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
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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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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
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Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.
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Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. - Sleepless in Seattle
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That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
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In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.
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And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
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So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
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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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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
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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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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
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