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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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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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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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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Where is Winnie the Pooh without it's illustrations?
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You only ever see four women leads on TV today in the 'Housewives' shows.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
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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.
