Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.

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• I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

  

  Halsey
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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • Earth
  • Government

• I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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  • Time
  • Believe

• When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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  • Home
  • Away

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
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  • Beautiful
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• People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

  

  Ada Yonath
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  • Today
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• The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

  

  Ed Koch
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• In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

  

  Oliver Sacks
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• I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
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• It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

  

  Banks
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  • Amazing
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• Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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  • Work
  • Different

• Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Interesting
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• People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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  • Good
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• Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

  

  Chen Guangbiao
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• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
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  • Up
  • Country

• I began asking myself questions like these: Am I listening for the still, small voice? Is my work still the center of my life and identity? Do I have an eternal perspective as a prism through which I view my life? What is my truest purpose? My life work? My destiny? What does it really mean to “have it all”?

  

  Bob Buford
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  • Identity

• I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Food