Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephronwas an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth19 May 1941
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
mirrors age trying
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.
writing interesting trying
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
opening-up doctors trying
Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep from just looking just a little older. You're just constantly putting stuff on your face and having things removed from yourself and opening up copies of "Vogue" so that you can find new ways to throw whatever money you've managed to save into the arms of some doctor who has just come up with a new way of lasering your face that feels like electroshock and all these things.
cautious century entering era following half happily lived lucky might movies note possibly spent struck third warning
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.
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It seemed to me that 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
few good hit remaining
The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.
believe life
Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.
american-author hard worked
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
death love people strikes
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.
behalf genuinely happen happens hearing reading thrilled unexpected
I think what's unexpected is that you keep reading it will happen and hearing it will happen, and then when it happens you find yourself genuinely thrilled on behalf of women.
fragile funny joan last member surviving telling thinks wildly
Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny and the last surviving member of the Donner party.
book chapters cut last pregnancy
If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters
country cities america
The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.
journalism journalist
Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.