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Nora Ephron Quotes

«New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)»
Author: Nora Ephron | Keywords: ingrown, Orleans, San
«What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.»
«If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters»
«There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience.»
Author: Nora Ephron | About: Mankind, Seasons | Keywords: convenience, philander, to be sure
«It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever after'' and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.»
«My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.»
«I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.»
Author: Nora Ephron | About: Success, Writing
«The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat»
«What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.»
Author: Nora Ephron | Keywords: frankly, liberation
«As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.»
Author: Nora Ephron | Keywords: date

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