Erma Bombeck Quotes
My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.
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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
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As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
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Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.
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The success of 'Dhruva' has given me more satisfaction than any of my previous hits, simply because the audience accepted the film even though it was experimental. I really hope this kind of acceptance makes experimental cinema the new mainstream cinema.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
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History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.
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Whether homemade granola or Matt's Munchies, I'm always snacking!
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There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
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People are forever finding something wrong with you.
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The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.
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Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.
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We're going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children's future and buy a new house.
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
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There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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So much one man can do,That does both act and know.
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Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one.
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On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.
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My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.
