Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
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If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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There were some quality things in the game but we just didn't do any of it for long enough.
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The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
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I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.
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Rotten wood cannot be carved.
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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
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Some women,” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “get under a man’s skin until digging them out makes you bleed.
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What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
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It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.
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I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore.
