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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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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The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
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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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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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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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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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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
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What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!
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You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.
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The empty nest is underrated.
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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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I actually believe in denial.
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
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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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[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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…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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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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So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.
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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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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.
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