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.

Hallie Ephron

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Shoes
  • Sexy

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• 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.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Long
  • Success
  • Technology

• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Money
  • Patience

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Chocolate
  • Go
  • Bar

• 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.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Dad

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Military
  • Organization

• Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Wealth
  • Environmental
  • Rise

• 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?'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Simple

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• 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.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Power
  • Tomorrow
  • Pen

• It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Hate

• Do I believe in plastic surgery? Yes, if something is wrong and you can modify it. For certain people, it's right.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • People
  • Believe

• The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Holy
  • Temple
  • Sale

• No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

  

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Time
  • Playing
  • Movement

• 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.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career