"Vera said: “Why do you feel you have……" — Nora Ephron
"Vera said: “Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?” So I told her why. Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it."
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116 Quotes by Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron has 116 quotes on this site.
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What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually…
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In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
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Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
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There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot…
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The empty nest is underrated.
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
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We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five…
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Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking…
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And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year…
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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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More Control Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— Lord Acton
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
— Lord Acton
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.…
— Michael Badnarik
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
— Red Adair
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
— Abu Bakr
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