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Nora Ephron Biography

Nora Ephron (/ˈɛfrən/ EF-rən; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is best known for her romantic comedy films and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing: for Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), and Sleepless in Seattle (1993). She won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally.... She sometimes wrote with her sister Delia Ephron. Her last film was Julie & Julia. Her first produced play, Imaginary Friends (2002), was honored as one of the ten best plays of the 2002-03 New York theatre season. She also co-authored the Drama Desk Award–winning theatrical production Love, Loss, and What I Wore. In 2013, Ephron received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy.

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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.

Failed, Felt, Mistake, People, Skill, Skills

Take notes. Everything is copy.

Copies, Copy, Everything, Notes, Take

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

Frankly, Know, Liberation, Mystery, Sex

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

Being Yourself, Daughter, Feminist, Mother, Play, Twenties

I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up. . . . You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

Advantages, Become, Iphone, Life, Senior, Years

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

Accident, Accidents, Beauty, Believe, Good, Looked

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

Education, Graduation, Inspire, Lead, Rehearsal

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

Become, Becoming, Meet

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

Food, Gourmet, Magazine, Memorable, Whenever, Women

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. . . . It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

Firsts, Greater, Pioneers, Understand, Wanting, Women

And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.

Grew, Holiday, Potatoes, Sweet, Thinking, Year

Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?

Bread, Day, Long, Rose, Smell, Years

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

Hurt, Hurts, Nothing, Steps, Steps Forward, Women

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

Abstract, Became, Dinner, Expressionism, Food, Party

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

Achievement, Concrete, Dutch, Movement, Treat

Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.

Apart, Buy, Fall, People, Way, Years

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. "

Daughter, Four, Mother, Powerful, Said, Talk

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

Finds, Men, Sex, Stories, Ultimately

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

Cinematic, Devoid, Live, Moments, Our Lives

Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up.

Disorder, Make, Opposites, Reading, Reality, Unbelievably

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