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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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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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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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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I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn't do well in school but had a great time exploring Beijing from the inside out.
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When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
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We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.
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You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.
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You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
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Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
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All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.
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I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.
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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.
