Nora Ephron Quotes
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
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I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
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Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.
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A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
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I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.
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What's going on outside? It was really nice - all the fans out there with big signs.
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When I get married it will be for keeps.
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It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been watching it every single Monday when with my wife. It was like a ritual - every Monday night on HBO Nordic, we would watch 'Game of Thrones' together.
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Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.
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The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
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The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
