"The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again."
-Nora Ephron
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"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.“
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"I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."
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"As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date."
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"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."
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