Nora Ephron Quotes

The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does.

Nora Ephron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I recently discovered the work of Giorgio Manganelli, who wrote a collection called 'Centuria,' which contains 100 stories, each of them about a page long. They're somewhat surreal and extremely dense, at once fierce and purifying, the equivalent of a shot of grappa. I find it helpful to read one before sitting down to write.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

Ami Ayalon

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Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.

Stanley Kubrick

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Politics will take care of itself. I'm interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians - they're not filmmakers.

Steven Rodney McQueen

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Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

Tom Feeney

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Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

Tom Folsom

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If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

Roger Penrose

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Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Ronald Reagan

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Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.

Louie Gohmert

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Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Bono

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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Peter Carey

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