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Delia 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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“Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.”
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“One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.”
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“[Line from Sleepless in Seattle:] It was like coming home, but not to any home I'd ever known.”
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“... writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.”
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“New Yorkers are born all over the country and then they come to the city and it strikes them, 'Oh, this is who I am.'”
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“There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.”
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“I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.”
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“... in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.”
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“... if you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.”
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“For me, having it all — if one wants to define it at all — is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.”
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“One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.”
Delia Ephron, U.S. writer, humorist
(1944)