Nora Ephron Quotes

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions.

Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy.

Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.

But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world.

In a recent interview, Howard Dean admitted that he used to drink and smoke pot. So, now all he needs to put him over the top is a sex scandal.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.

It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

This industry's so full of distractions: partying, drinking, sex, money. The priority for me is just to make music that people can connect with. I want to make something fresh that people may not understand

That (sex) was the most fun I ever had without laughing.

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

The two best things you can do for a person is have sex or make them laugh.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

A really hard laugh is like sex-one of the ultimate diversions of existence.