Erma Bombeck Quotes
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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I try to stay in decent shape.
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When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.
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I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
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I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
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I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.
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Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.
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If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.
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My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
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To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.
