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Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
American Author
Born: May 19, 1941
Died: Jun 26, 2012
Day Life Me People Think You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Nora Ephron
Crazy People Insane Insane People Willing Fine Admit Only Sure Always Sane Sane People Who
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. Nora Ephron
Life Victim Heroine Above Your
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. Nora Ephron
Life You Rest Somebody Spend Possible Soon Want Realize Your Start
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be. Nora Ephron
Love Death You People Strikes Everywhere Out Could Like Know Again Turn Then Next
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. Nora Ephron
Men Feelings Own Touch Only Tend True Beware Cry Sensitive Who
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. Nora Ephron
People Difficulty Distinguishing Merely Am Continually Intelligent Offensive Intelligent People Controversial Fascinated
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34. Nora Ephron
You Regret Reading Year Young Worn Minute Entire Having Take Put Until How Go Off Oh Anyone Bikini Right
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron
Life Day Mother One Day Potential Understand Comic Tragedies Wanted Stories Us Next Your
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke. Nora Ephron
You People Hero Joke Become Victim Peel Slip Laugh Tell Rather Banana Than Your
I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to. Nora Ephron
Time Remember Hunt Exactly Proof About Something Could Had Since Know Wrote Course Because Least Been Years Up Forgetting Where Things
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Nora Ephron
Good You Cooking Mother Else Would About Someone Recreational She Worked Cook Hard Believed Basically
All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?' Nora Ephron
Food Walk Long Think Enough About Kitchen Write Scripts Justify Worked
Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live 20 more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Nora Ephron
Life Day You Every Day Money Long Live Every Too Constantly Some More Over Am Fretting Years Questions Hoard Going Short Your Here Last Chance Save
I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period. Nora Ephron
Life Black My Life Everywhere Purchase Period Greatest Just Sweater Turtleneck Bring
E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know. Nora Ephron
People Live Intimate Way Say Someone More Instant Almost New Know Message Without Answer How Subject Friends Did New Way Short Being Breakthrough Communicative Whole Ever
When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and made some things I haven't made in a while, one being beef bourguignon, which to me is a hilariously 1960s dish that everyone felt they had to serve at a dinner party or they weren't a grown-up. Nora Ephron
Me Made Dinner Party Back Everyone Dinner Party Some Some Things Had Felt Were Beef Julia Julie Child Being Dish Which While Working Cookbook Grown-Up Serve Things
Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. Nora Ephron
Married Magazine Gourmet Get Get Married Whenever Start Buying
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Nora Ephron
You Cooking Mother Else Would About Someone Worked Hard Believed
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. Nora Ephron
Me Mind Sex Nobody Loves Fantasy Ever
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. Nora Ephron
Alone Women Regret Single Believe Say Immediately Married Followed Primal Almost Equally Get Get Married Which Again Urge Basic Desire
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. Nora Ephron
People Men President Would Running Date Dating Concerned As Far As Far Who Even
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. Nora Ephron
Health Problems Desperate Will Signs Important Enough Television Entering Hunt Indication Adolescence Never Smallest Child Any Movie
The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't. Nora Ephron
Good Me Result Few Thinking Would Something Only Remaining Come Like Force Real Years Lot Up Hit Done May Realization Profound
Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. Nora Ephron
Life Me Denial Believe Way Has-Been Been Years Many Actually
Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself. Nora Ephron
You Yourself Every Say Ways Find Fresh Got Subconsciously Years Moment Even Keep
I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me. Nora Ephron
Me Will Some Except Course Making Making Movies Go Just Want Movies Them Meaningless
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