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Nora Ephron Quotes
Birthday: | May 19, 1941 |
Birthplace: | New York City, NY, United States |
Death: | June 26, 2012 |
Educated At: | Beverly Hills High School, Wellesley College |
Manner of Death: | Natural Causes |
Nationality: | American, United States Of America |
Occupations: | Screenwriter, Producer, Director, Journalist, Playwright |
Spouse: | Carl Bernstein, Nicholas Pileggi, Dan Greenburg |
Total quotes: 100
Nora Ephron
BirthnameBirthday: May 19, 1941
Birthplace: New York City, NY, United States
Death: June 26, 2012
Educated At: Beverly Hills High School, Wellesley College
Manner of Death: Natural Causes
Nationality: American, United States Of America
Occupations: Screenwriter, Producer, Director, Journalist, Playwright
Spouse: Carl Bernstein, Nicholas Pileggi, Dan Greenburg
Total quotes: 100
“But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn’t share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably.”
Tagged:
Marriage
“You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.”
Tagged:
Parenting
“He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence began with his style and eventually ended up with our own.”
Tagged:
Zen
“What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said.”
Tagged:
Self-Doubt
“I’ve always believed that the concept of the Jewish princess was invented by a Jewish prince who couldn’t get his wife to fetch him the butter.”
Tagged:
Jewish American Princess, butter
“I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.”
Tagged:
Jealousy
“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.”
Tagged:
Troublemakers
“Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.”
Tagged:
Rejection
“When I pass a bookshelf, I like to pick out a book from it and thumb through it. When I see a newspaper on the couch, I like to sit down with it....Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person.”
Tagged:
Reading
“According to my dermatologist, the neck starts to go at forty-three, and that's that...The neck is a dead giveaway. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck.”
Tagged:
Aging, Dermatology
“In the end, I always want potatoes. Mashed potatoes. Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.”
Tagged:
eating, comfort food
“It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tenterhooks waiting for the next copy of whatever publication you work at.”
Tagged:
Journalism, self-absorption
“I met the president within minutes of going to 'work' in the White House. My first morning there, he flew to Annapolis to give the commencement address at the Naval Academy, and Pierre [Salinger] invited me to come along with the press pool in the press helicopter. When I got back to the White House, Pierre [Salinger] took me in to meet the president. He was the handsomest man I had ever seen.”
Tagged:
JFK, White House
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