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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We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.
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Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means ‘pretending to be a lion’….It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
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You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.
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In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
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I find drinking really helps.
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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
