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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.

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 great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
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