Erma Bombeck Quotes
Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
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All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
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It's not a bad time to be me.
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Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.
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'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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'When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.'
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I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.
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I'm happy David Caruso is out there working.
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I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.
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Be genuinely grateful for the success of others. A generous spirit is the surest sign of a kind heart.
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Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's constantly exposed to consumption and a sense of bigness, which is a part of being an American.
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Marlowe anticipated Whitman's barbaric yawp by setting up a national PA system of blank verse – a rising iambic system of sound to suit the new success story. (p. 223)
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Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.
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Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
