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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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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 am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
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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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You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.
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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
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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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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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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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I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.
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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
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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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When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
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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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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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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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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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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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