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Hallie Ephron

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If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
KATHARINE HEPBURN Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was ...
HALLIE EPHRON I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter...
HALLIE EPHRON The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we we...
HALLIE EPHRON Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off...
HALLIE EPHRON I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon ...
HALLIE EPHRON It's like Golden Pond. You almost expect Katharine Hepburn to come around the corner at any moment.
SCOTT WITTMAN And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave whic...
BIBLE I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist a...
DEBI MAZAR The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. -Nora Eph...
NORA EPHRON If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn.
KATHARINE HEPBURN Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
DENZEL WASHINGTON There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have th...
NATASHA LYONNE When you play someone as terrifyingly well-known as Katharine Hepburn, it's a team effort.
CATE BLANCHETT The major trends are definitely dressier than it has been, but it's very wearable, ... It's like a K...
JOAN KELLY There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Dia...
BLAKE LIVELY Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepbur...
MEGYN KELLY Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marylin Monroe. Bu...
JOAN CRAWFORD I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, s...
GILLIAN JACOBS We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry ...
NORA EPHRON I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This ...
GABY HOFFMANN When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy Parker retorted, "Not if it was buttoned...
DOROTHY PARKER Parker looked real sharp and was real aggressive.
JOE GODINHO It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and prim...
NORA EPHRON I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
DOROTHY PARKER I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if onl...
KATE KLISE She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
DOROTHY PARKER I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine ...
SIRI HUSTVEDT The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Holly...
WESLEY MORRIS It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was...
ISABEL GILLIES Well, I like Charlie Parker, Ella, Billie Holiday.
AARON NEVILLE I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she s...
NATALIE DORMER Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good frie...
NORA EPHRON Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
NORA EPHRON I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is cont...
NORA EPHRON Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admi...
NORA EPHRON It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever afte...
NORA EPHRON I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...
NORA EPHRON Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...
NORA EPHRON My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if yo...
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 When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thi...
NORA EPHRON I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star re...
NORA EPHRON I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onio...
NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
NORA EPHRON I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series...
NORA EPHRON It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was...
NORA EPHRON Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
DELIA EPHRON 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...
NORA EPHRON Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
NORA EPHRON When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I ...
NORA EPHRON The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic an...
NORA EPHRON I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to or...
NORA EPHRON In California, of course, they never break up couples at dinner for fear of what might happen if som...
NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
NORA EPHRON Every so often, I turn on the television and see one of the movement leaders being asked some idiot ...
NORA EPHRON Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the w...
NORA EPHRON The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters
NORA EPHRON I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how m...
NORA EPHRON I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a goo...
NORA EPHRON Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live ...
NORA EPHRON It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever aft...
NORA EPHRON My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be c...
NORA EPHRON The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif...
NORA EPHRON Madame Olga began muttering something under her breath in gypsy to the effect of "Fucking debutantes...
AMY EPHRON When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and mad...
NORA EPHRON In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
DELIA EPHRON It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared...
NORA EPHRON When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy...
NORA EPHRON I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all ti...
NORA EPHRON Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is r...
NORA EPHRON Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
NORA EPHRON When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subcons...
NORA EPHRON I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm no...
NORA EPHRON I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
NORA EPHRON …the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not ha...
NORA EPHRON Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl...
NORA EPHRON I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position agai...
NORA EPHRON I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't m...
NORA EPHRON Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
NORA EPHRON Dale the Thug.
NORA EPHRON 'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and...
NORA EPHRON

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HALLIE KENNEY The biggest challenge right now is funding. Israel doesn't fund the team until we qualify for the Ol...
HALLIE COHEN [Actually, Eisenberg wants to be a doctor or lawyer — trite, sure, but refreshingly absent the love...
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HALLIE EISENBERG There was a long time where I couldn't move two feet without someone asking me about it, ... It was ...
HALLIE EISENBERG What? What is this? ... My sister and I wrote a little play for my parents. How is this out there?
HALLIE EISENBERG Who knows what will happen? It could be us against the United States for the gold medal in 2008 in B...
HALLIE COHEN This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A once-in-a-lifetime experience.
HALLIE COHEN I got pretty close. Ultimately, I thought about it more as an athlete than as a coach. Not being a D...
HALLIE COHEN She's just an awesome team player. She's mentally tough and such a competitor. She hates losing, and...
HALLIE COHEN Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good frie...
NORA EPHRON Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
NORA EPHRON I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is cont...
NORA EPHRON Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admi...
NORA EPHRON It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever afte...
NORA EPHRON I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...
NORA EPHRON Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...
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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 The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. -Nora Eph...
NORA EPHRON When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thi...
NORA EPHRON I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star re...
NORA EPHRON I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onio...
NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
NORA EPHRON I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series...
NORA EPHRON It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was...
NORA EPHRON Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
DELIA EPHRON 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...
NORA EPHRON Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
NORA EPHRON When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I ...
NORA EPHRON The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic an...
NORA EPHRON I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to or...
NORA EPHRON In California, of course, they never break up couples at dinner for fear of what might happen if som...
NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
NORA EPHRON Every so often, I turn on the television and see one of the movement leaders being asked some idiot ...
NORA EPHRON Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the w...
NORA EPHRON The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters
NORA EPHRON I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how m...
NORA EPHRON I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a goo...
NORA EPHRON Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live ...
NORA EPHRON It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever aft...
NORA EPHRON My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be c...
NORA EPHRON The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif...
NORA EPHRON Madame Olga began muttering something under her breath in gypsy to the effect of "Fucking debutantes...
AMY EPHRON When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and mad...
NORA EPHRON In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
DELIA EPHRON It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared...
NORA EPHRON When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy...
NORA EPHRON I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all ti...
NORA EPHRON Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is r...
NORA EPHRON Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
NORA EPHRON When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subcons...
NORA EPHRON I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm no...
NORA EPHRON I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
NORA EPHRON …the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not ha...
NORA EPHRON Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl...
NORA EPHRON I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position agai...
NORA EPHRON I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't m...
NORA EPHRON Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
NORA EPHRON Dale the Thug.
NORA EPHRON 'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and...
NORA EPHRON As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
NORA EPHRON To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of th...
NORA EPHRON Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorles...
NORA EPHRON I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
NORA EPHRON With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest in...
NORA EPHRON You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets
NORA EPHRON New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The o...
NORA EPHRON There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same l...
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NORA EPHRON It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and prim...
NORA EPHRON We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry ...
NORA EPHRON Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but t...
NORA EPHRON It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever af...
NORA EPHRON [A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own p...
NORA EPHRON In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
NORA EPHRON Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that ev...
NORA EPHRON What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would d...
NORA EPHRON I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies - which I once thou...
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NORA EPHRON My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My...
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DELIA EPHRON [It] consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
DELIA EPHRON As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and mai...
DELIA EPHRON Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mat...
DELIA EPHRON You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the ...
NORA EPHRON Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bou...
NORA EPHRON I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your ...
NORA EPHRON I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.
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NORA EPHRON I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Peri...
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most of them, but never the potato...
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