Nora Ephron Quotes

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

Nora Ephron

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Work
  • Limit

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Important
  • War
  • Man

• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Daughter

• One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Eyes
  • Moving
  • Senses

• For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'

  

  Jack Germond
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Political

• I've always considered myself something of a musical rebel.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Rebel

• Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Book
  • Week
  • Two

• I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Power
  • Think

• Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Different
  • Health
  • Unique

• Scientists do not simply read nature to find truths to apply in the social world. Instead, they use truths taken from our social relationships to structure, read, and interpret the natural.

  

  Anne Fausto-Sterling
  • Nature
  • Truths
  • Interpret

• I fall asleep feeling beautiful. Then, in the morning, before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like 'You have really pretty eyes.' That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence. It's a feel-good protein shake in my back pocket in case someone messes with me that day.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • World
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Whatever I can do to help me be a better player, I'll do it.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Help
  • Player

• Adoration in prayer reminds us of God's identity and inclination. As we list his attributes, lifting up his character and personality, we reinforce our understanding of who he is.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Up
  • God
  • Character

• It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

  

  Homer
  • Father
  • Child
  • Blameless

• When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

  

  Nora Ephron
  • Book
  • Child
  • Identity