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 once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.
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I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.
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Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.
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Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.
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Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.
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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.
