Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg. Nora Ephron More Quotes by Nora Ephron More Quotes From Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. Nora Ephron liberation mystery sex Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black. Nora Ephron black You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks? Nora Ephron reading writing book You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay. Nora Ephron moments writing believe I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they've failed. Nora Ephron skills mistake people You can blame Al Gore and you can blame Ralph Nader and you can blame George Bush, but I blame Bill [Clinton]. I just do. I just think he squandered his presidency the night that woman delivered that pizza to him, and if he hadn't, we wouldn't be where we are and there would be a lot of people who are alive today who aren't. Nora Ephron night people thinking I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if you don't feel like it. If you do, great. If you don't, just my only caution is watch out. There are a huge number of wrinkle creams that do nothing for you. Nora Ephron wrinkles numbers thinking Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it. Nora Ephron denial mean people When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love. Nora Ephron husband sports thinking Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love. Nora Ephron married falling-in-love experts My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending. Nora Ephron scripts made littles I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays. Nora Ephron twenties play years 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. Nora Ephron doctors opening-up trying It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked. Nora Ephron infinite running people My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy." Nora Ephron daughter powerful mother One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants! Nora Ephron lasts fighting want Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken. Nora Ephron chicken everyone place good I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I'm just a food person. Nora Ephron restaurant i-am drive food When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke. Nora Ephron laugh you hero people I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows. Nora Ephron good look think chef
