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.
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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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I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care of a white man's child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.
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Leadership is something I was born with.
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The old man murmured: 'Aye, we draw to an end. Dying hurts. Nonetheless the forefathers were wise who in their myths made Nan coequal with Lesu. A thing which endured forever would become unendurable. Death opens a way, for peoples as well as for people.'
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I think a long-term TV show is probably not for me, but doing a few years of something could be interesting.
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I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.
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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.
