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Nora Ephron Quotes

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Live People Short Friends Someone

We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

Ann McLane Kuster

People Need 21st Century Invest Jobs

When I first began to have the initial idea for 'Heartsease,' I just wrote a skeleton story; that is, I started her off as this young, bright 16-year-old and then added the events that occurred and where she and other characters fitted in, even writing 3 different endings, as I was not sure where Mary's story would lead to.

Writing Story Young Bright She Lead

I can't discuss the possibility of the U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war without also talking about Benghazi.

War Talking Civil War Without Syria

We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.

Great Award Television First Years

My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever.

Mother Book Royalty You Never She

Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.

Life Work Balance Better Living Out

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

Christopher Cross

Work Time Song Better You Striving

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

Work I Am Long Pen Desk Fountain

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.

Bradford Dillman

Time Hobby Ring Actor Telephone

Climate change is a security threat that Africans have had to deal with all of our lives.

Ali Bongo Ondimba

Change Security Climate Change Deal

Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.

Competition Price Quantity Own Sell

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

You Movies Surprises Because Get

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