Yehuda Berg Quotes
If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.
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You should have died when I killed you.
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If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.
