Nora Ephron Quotes

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.

Nora Ephron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012

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I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.

Jimmy Iovine

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My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

Melanie Rawn

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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.

Stephanie Cutter

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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

Stacy Schiff

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To me, diva means an extraordinary, outrageously theatrical, brilliant performer.

Roger Taylor

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If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Rod Steiger

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The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Roland Barthes

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We have about 200,000 ISIS tweets per day that hit the United States. The chatter is so loud and the volume is so high that it's a problem that's very hard to stop and disrupt in this country.

Michael McCaul

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My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

Jonathan Galassi

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It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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We're so specialized now in our entertainment. It's nice to do a show where you're really circling back to this idea of, 'Couldn't there be a show the whole family can watch together?'

Dean Devlin

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