"I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what."

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Source : Nora Ephron (2015). “Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.56, Melville House

Nora Ephron

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“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”
“Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.”
“The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.”
“They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.”

Source : Nicolas Caussin, Hawkins (1678). “The Holy Court in Five Tomes. The First Treating of Motives, which Should Excite Men of Quality to Christian Perfection: the Second of the Prelate, Souldier, Statesman, and Lady: the Third of Maxims of Christianity Against Prophaness, Divided Into Three Parts, Viz. Divinity, Government of this Life, and State of the Other World: the Fourth Containing the Command of Reason Over the Passions: the Fifth Containing the Lives of the Most Famous and Illustrious Courtiers; Taken Both Out of the Old and”, p.668
“I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.”
“In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Napoleon Hill, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol “"Strangest Secret" Reference Collecion”, Lulu.com
“Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.”
“I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.”

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