Hallie Ephron Quotes
I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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Men meet; mountains, never.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Women's bodies are meant to store fat so that we can do amazing things like have babies or rock a tight pair of jeans.
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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If you’re going through a dark time... don’t ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
