Edna Ferber Quotes
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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I'm not a big sports fan.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.
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I mean, stand up you're by yourself and it's live and when you're acting, unless you're doing a monologue, you're interacting with somebody else. Even if you're doing a monologue you're saying it to somebody and it's not live so you can do it a few times.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
