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" In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. "
Nora Ephron
Ever
Fantasy
Nobody
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" I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60. "
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" I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think. "
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" When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing - to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. - something's going to happen. Black, it's the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be 'the' dress. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that readers believe that a writer becomes friends with the people he interviews and writes about - and I think there are some writers who do that - but that hasn't happened to me. I do think it's dangerous because then you write the article to please them, which is a terrible error. "
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" 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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" 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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Only
Admit
Always
" When 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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" If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. "
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" The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back. "
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" 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. "
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People
" 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. "
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Remember
Women
" 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
" I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. "
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Writing
You
Acceptance
" Food was supposed to be a slightly bigger part of 'Heartburn,' and it actually didn't turn out to be because of me. I just didn't find a way to make it a bigger part of the movie as I should have, and we cut several scenes in which food was a major character. "
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" 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. "
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Husband
California
Dinner
" 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. "
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Proud
Think
Old Age
" 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. "
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Drive
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Kind
" I don't have writer's block, really. I do have times when I can't get the lead, and that is the only part of the story which I have serious trouble with. I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. "
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Serious
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View
" 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. "
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You
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People
" Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up. "
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Important
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken. "
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Fried
Chicken
Good
" I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. "
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Women
Try
Interesting
" Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. "
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Life
Victim
" 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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Feeling
" I think when you get older, things come along that you know are a test in some way of your ability to stay with it. And when e-mail came along, I was just going to fall in love with it. And I did. I can't believe it now - it's like one of those ex-husbands that you think, 'What was I thinking?' "
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" I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. "
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" What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. "
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