Erma Bombeck Quotes
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.
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My mind works . . . two boobs never get me a job.
