Nora Ephron Quotes
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
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I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
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Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.
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The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.
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It's easier being with somebody who's got some sense.
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We both be at our wittes end.
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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
