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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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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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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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.
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There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.
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Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
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We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
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Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
