American - Author | May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012
You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.
Nora Ephron
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I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French.
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I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends.
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All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'
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My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.
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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
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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.
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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
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The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
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What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
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