David Bergen Quotes
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
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There is no 'ultimate goal of therapy.' Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therapy is one of the most fundamental errors of our field. To me, that concept is rather arrogant, as if therapists were some kind of spiritual experts who knew what human beings are supposed to be like.
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'I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately..' -'Access Hollywood interview about his JukeBox Tour
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We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.
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In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.
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I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.
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An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.
