Nora Ephron Quotes

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Nora Ephron Quotes

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

Take notes. Everything is copy.

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

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.

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.
I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.
That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.
Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
The hardest thing about writing is writing.
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.
I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.
Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
Take notes. Everything is copy.
I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
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.
And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.