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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Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.
M. F. K. Fisher
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The top rockers have a mythic aura about them, the 'superstar,' and that's a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it's the very virus that's fucking up rock, a subspecies of the virus I spoke of earlier that infests our culture from popstars to politics.
Lester Bangs
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Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
Philip Schultz
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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
