Erma Bombeck Quotes
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.
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I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass if I see a teammate in a better scoring position. But I like to score.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.
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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
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Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.
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So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
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Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.
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We are constantly under lots of pressure, so I take lots of time to recover and do all the things I need for my body to be in the perfect state to compete the next day.
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I never really had them. I always get the eccentric kids who dress funny and sit and write poetry for three months in their bedrooms......I was going to see tons of shows when I was a teenager, so if I was a girl, would that have made me a groupie? If I wanted to shake Thurston Moore's hand or something?
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One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.
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My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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Artists in general never stay in the same place; we keep growing. It's still you: you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
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There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
