A. Scott Berg Quotes
After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I consider Rashi Khanna and Regina Cassandra as my best friends. They say there are three Rs in the Telugu industry: Rakul, Rashi, and Regina. All three of us debuted in the same year, and while we all compete for the same roles, we are still the closest, and we confide in each other.
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
