Edna Ferber Quotes
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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When you're hot, you try to ride it as long as you can.
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
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I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
