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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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You can blame Al Gore and you can blame Ralph Nader and you can blame George Bush, but I blame Bill [Clinton]. I just do. I just think he squandered his presidency the night that woman delivered that pizza to him, and if he hadn't, we wouldn't be where we are and there would be a lot of people who are alive today who aren't.
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Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
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Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
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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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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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The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
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If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
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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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Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
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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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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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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.
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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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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
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The hardest thing about writing is writing.
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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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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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Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.
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