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Nora Ephron
Humorist, Novelist, Screenwriter and Director
Nora Ephron: It wasn't a really commercial movie. It would have been more commercial had it had a more commercial cast, but I didn't have a very commercial cast. In fact, I had Bette Midler who wanted to do it, and Jeffrey Katzenberg at Disney would not let her out of her contract to do it. I think the movie would have done better if Bette had been in it. I loved Julie Kavner in it, but I begged Jeffrey Katzenberg to let (Bette Midler) out of her contract, or for him to make it, and he simply had no interest in the subject matter of that movie and told me so. He had no interest in what it was about, which was balancing a career and work. It was about a woman stand-up comic, who had two children. It's a very funny script, and a good script, and Jeffrey isn't really interested in women. His wife is a housewife. He just wasn't there, and it was heartbreaking to me. I went through -- it seemed like forever -- trying to get it made, and then suddenly one day a guy named Joe Roth at Fox said, "I'll make this movie with Julie Kavner," and he did it.
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Nora Ephron
Humorist, Novelist, Screenwriter and Director
There were magazines that didn't have a lot of women writing for them, but if you wanted to write for them and you were any good at all, you could. But The New York Times Magazine, the first assignment I got from them in 1968 or '9 was a fashion assignment, and I had never written about fashion in my life. I knew nothing about fashion. I cared less, but I thought, "Well, I'll do this. I'll write this, and then they'll see I can write for them, and then I won't have to write about fashion anymore," and I never did.
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Julius Erving
The Great and Wondrous Dr. J
Julius Erving: The more successful people are in life -- and I've found this to be true -- have this resiliency about them, where no matter what comes down the pike, they're not going to quit. They're not going to be blown out of the water, and they're not going to exit from the game, unless it's their choice. And if it's their choice to exit from the game, they're exiting because they've got something else to do. It's like the old expression, it's better to not succeed than it is to not try. If you don't try, you're guilty of a crime that, in business, or in sports, or whatever, would be considered the cardinal sin. Always give your best effort, always try. You might come up a little bit short, but have this intestinal fortitude within you. Have this attitude programmed. Understand who you are, what you can bring to the table, and then bring that to the table. Where the pieces fall, they fall. I think that the resiliency to deal with good times, as well as bad times, and still remain focused, and still remain purposeful and true in your quest for worthy things in life is part of the character that one has to have to be successful. There are a lot of technical things that you have to understand, a lot of fundamental things that you need to be a part of your make-up. But you're way ahead of the game if you have this knack for being resilient, resourceful.
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