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Nora Ephron
Birthday:
19 May 1941
Height:
165 cm
Biography
A successful parent is one who raises their child to be able to pay for their own psychoanalysis.
A successful parent is one who raises their child to be able to pay for their own psychoanalysis.
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
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.
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.
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
[on feminine hygiene aids] There are a lot of men who manufacture the product who are so reluctant to talk straight about it that you can spend hours with them and not hear one anatomical phrase. They speak of 'the problem'. They speak of 'the area where the problem exists'. Every so often a hard-core word slides into the conversation. Vagina, maybe. Or some...
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[on feminine hygiene aids] There are a lot of men who manufacture the product who are so reluctant to talk straight about it that you can spend hours with them and not hear one anatomical phrase. They speak of 'the problem'. They speak of 'the area where the problem exists'. Every so often a hard-core word slides into the conversation. Vagina, maybe. Or sometimes from someone particularly scientific or candid, a vulva or two.
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One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.
One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.
[on success] Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.
[on success] Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron was educated at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. She was an acclaimed essayist (Crazy Salad 1975), novelist (Heartburn 1983), and had written screenplays for several popular films, all featuring strong female characters, such as anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood (Silkwood (1983), co-written with Alice Arlen) and a mobster's feisty independent daughter Cookie Voltecki (Cookie (1989), also co-written with Arlen). Ephron's hard-headed sensibilities helped make Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally... (1989) a clear-eyed view of modern romance, and she earned an Oscar nomination for her original screenplay.Ephron made her directorial debut with the comedy This Is My Life (1992), co-scripted by her sister Delia Ephron, which starred Julie Kavner as a single mother who struggles to establish herself as a stand-up comedienne. Ephron followed up by helming and co-writing Sleepless in Seattle (1993), a romantic comedy in which lovers Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are separated for most of the film. Less about love than about love in the movies, the film drew inspiration from the beloved shipboard romance An Affair to Remember (1957), starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.Ephron was the daughter of stage and screen-writing team Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron, who used her infancy as the subject of their play "Three's a Family" and based their comedy Take Her, She's Mine (1963) on letters their daughter wrote them from college. Their screenplays include There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Carousel (1956) and Desk Set (1957). Formerly married to novelist Dan Greenburg and investigative journalist Carl Bernstein, Ephron was wed to crime journalist and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, at the time of her passing, who wrote such films as Goodfellas (1990).
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