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Nora Ephron war eine US-amerikanische Drehbuchautorin und Filmregisseurin.

✵ 19. Mai 1941 – 26. Juni 2012  •  Andere Namen نورا افرون
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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

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

“When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.”

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Variante: I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Quelle: When Harry Met Sally

“I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.”

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“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.”

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Nora Ephron buch Heartburn

Quelle: Heartburn

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”

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“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”

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Nora Ephron buch Heartburn

Quelle: Heartburn

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.”

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“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person…. Reading is bliss.”

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“It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?”

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Quelle: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend”

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Quelle: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“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).”

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Quelle: I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”

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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”

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“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

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“Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.”

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Nora Ephron buch Heartburn

Nora Ephron, Heartburn (1983), as reported in What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present (1989), p. 320.

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”

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“When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”

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Quelle: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.”

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“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”

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Nora Ephron buch Heartburn

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“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”

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“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four.”

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Nora Ephron: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Random House Incorporated, 2008
Quelle: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“[W]hen 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.”

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Quelle: When Harry Met Sally

“… 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.”

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“Stare at me in this faceless way, go mad with desire, and rip my clothes off. It's terrific. In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. The fantasy of rape — of which mine is in a kind of prepubescent sub-category — is common enough among women and (in mirror image) among men.”

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Nora Ephron: Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women, Knopf Publishing, New York, 1975

“When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.
- Sleepless in Seattle”

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“…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.”

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Quelle: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.”

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Quelle: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.”

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Quelle: Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women

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