"I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."

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Nora Ephron

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“Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because they have wonderful ideas about how to share books, and especially about how to share my books with kids.”
“I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.”

Source : Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.”
“If we actually love what we're doing and we go and do what we love, and every day we get up because we're really happy to get up and go and do what we do, you can't actually do that without expression, and art forms part of that mix of expression that makes the whole package of life so enjoyable to be in.”
“If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.”
“I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.”
“The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.”
“All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.”

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