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Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
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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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What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?
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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
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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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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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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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Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is first lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
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I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?
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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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When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle
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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 enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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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 want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?
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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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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 can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.
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The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many... somethings. So, thanks.
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