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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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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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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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Close your legs to married men.
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You've got to have fun in life. Otherwise, wow - imagine life without fun.
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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.
