Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.
Elizabeth Berg
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
Patricia Marx
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
Kate McKinnon
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
Octavia Spencer
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
Francesca Annis
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
Karen Armstrong
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I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Digression is my passion. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is using those narratives as a way of stringing together the interesting stories that people have kind of forgotten, and that are kind of surprising. The problem is, how do you pare stories away so that the book doesn't become a distracting jumble of material, and readers lose focus? In my experience, there's really only one way to do that. I pack it all in with the rough draft, then count on myself and my trusted readers to tell me what's good and what's not good.
Erik Larson
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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao Tzu
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Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.
Alexandra Cousteau
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When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
Charley Pride
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I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.
Elizabeth Berg