Quotes by Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron

… the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn’t happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

Book

Doe

Wonderful

… when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women’s Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven’t read or learned or seen anything at all.

Dirty

People

Reading

…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

Hair

Thinking

Worry

[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don’t bump into vinaigrettes that good.)

Believe

Drama

Risk

[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation.

President

Vacation

Vices

[on the screenplay for “When Harry Met Sally”] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, “They lived happily ever after” and the following quarter century warning that they’ll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

Movie

Optimism

Weekend

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

College

Educational

Meaningful

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, ‘Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,’ because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven’t produced anything, and that’s the end of the career.

Kids

Summer

Writing

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

Always Alone

Book

Men

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

Encouraging

Inspiring

Life

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Abstract

Acceptance

Accidents

Achievement

Age

Aging

All Time

Almonds

Always Alone

America

Army

Baby

Bachelors

Bananas

Bangs

Beautiful

Beauty

Becoming

Being Single

Being Yourself

Belief

Believe

Believer

Better Person

Black

Bliss

Book

Boredom

Born

Boys

Brave

Breeze

Buying Things

Care

Careers

Cases

Change

Cheating

Children

Choices

Christian

Cinematic

Cities

Clueless

College

Comes And Goes

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Confusion

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Quotes by Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron

… the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn’t happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

… when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women’s Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven’t read or learned or seen anything at all.

…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don’t bump into vinaigrettes that good.)

[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

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

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