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" I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French. "
Nora Ephron
Thought
How
Blame
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" We're saved somewhat by Google. You can - when you're all sitting around the table desperately snapping your fingers in the hopes of remembering the name of that movie that you can't remember the name of - you can make people think that you are not as old as you actually are because you have the technology to find the answer. "
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" I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends. "
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" Here are some questions I am constantly fretting 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 20 more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? "
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Live
Short
Life
" One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are. "
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Movies
Writing
" I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think. "
Nora Ephron
Lady
Gloves
Medical
" One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with. "
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Good
You
Anger
" 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. "
Nora Ephron
Health
Child
Will
" The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs. "
Nora Ephron
Party
Mother
Day
" Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them. "
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You
Time
Hair
" E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know. "
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Short
People
Friends
" I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. "
Nora Ephron
People
Difficulty
I Am
" I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?' "
Nora Ephron
People
Laugh
Thought
" 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. "
Nora Ephron
Good
Mother
You
" In California, of course, they never break up couples at dinner for fear of what might happen if someone's husband were seated next to someone else's very young girlfriend. But dinners with couples seated next to one another are always deadly dull, which is why there are almost no good dinner parties in the entire state of California. "
Nora Ephron
Husband
California
Dinner
" 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. "
Nora Ephron
Cry
Feelings
Men
" I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things. "
Nora Ephron
Talking
Remember
Women
" I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to. "
Nora Ephron
Time
Know
Remember
" I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain. "
Nora Ephron
Anger
Brain
Divorce
" I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California. "
Nora Ephron
California
Grew
Food
" As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. "
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People
President
" Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself. "
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Find
You
Yourself
" I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right. "
Nora Ephron
Proud
Think
Old Age
" Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking. "
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Me
Writing
Like
" At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin. "
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Your
Will
Age
" Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. "
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Admit
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" Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake. "
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Feel
" Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful. "
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Hot
Blue
Feeling
" My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else. "
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Born
Children
" What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. "
Nora Ephron
Happen
Know
Mystery