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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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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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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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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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 don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
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Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
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I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.
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I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.
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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.
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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.
